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== Mythology ==
* In China it's a common custom to burn offerings known as [[wikipedia:Hell Bank Notes|Hell Bank Notes]]. They're meant for the deceased to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|spend in the afterlife.]]
** Archie McPhee, of all companies, will sell you Hell Money—as well as spiffy [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20090210125443/http://mcphee.com/items/M6290.html men's] and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20090210125329/http://mcphee.com/items/M6289.html women's] clothing and accessories, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20090210191403/http://mcphee.com/items/M6284.html jewelry,] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090404102053/http://www.mcphee.com/items/M6286.html food.]
** It's also amusing to note that a number of Chinese and Indian near-death experiences report being informed by clerks that there has been a "clerical error" and "someone else with your name was supposed to die today."
*** Sometimes, if somebody'd forgotten to preserve the subject's original body beforehand, they were sent back in another recently-dead body.