Immortality(sumerian, hebrew..

“From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death.” (Gilgamesh, 16) The fascination and fear of death is present in all cultures. Questions of an afterlife have attempted to be answered through philosophy and religion, which are seen through writings of various civilizations. The Sumerian, Hebrew, and Greek literature all have reference to death; trying to understand life after death was …

…ideas and beliefs of immortality. It is obvious that all cultures do not share the same views of a life after death. Hebrews and the 5th century Greeks had similar concepts of what was to come after death; Bronze-Age Greeks and Sumerians also shared similar concepts. By studying literature of different beliefs and cultures it is evident that the questions in regards to death and immortality have been asked since the beginning of literate man. “