After life in Egypt and Greece
To Ancient Greeks, the afterlife was not at all a happy place. They believed that the body was left as nothing but dust. Their big burials were always huge for people of high honor. There were three parts of burying the deceased person. The prothesis and the ekphora were for preparing the body for its life after death and the actualy burying of the person. To Greeks, some of them said they would rather stay on the earth miserable rather than going to the afterlife. They called their afterlife the "underworld". They believe that people who are properly buried get to cross the river in the afterlife.
Ancient Egyptians afterlife was very happy. The ka is greeted with foods and drinks as soon as they arrive there. You could become a god in your afterlife in Egypt. Egyptians made a big deals out of the deaths in their country. It seems to be the other way around now but it seems like Egyptians actually rejoiced their death. Death and afterlife was a great thing to Egyptians.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dbag/hd_dbag.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion#Afterlife
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife#Ancient_Greek_and_Roman
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