ABSTRACT
One of the most important things about stories and storytelling is that they are primarily a form of communication, and in that communication between humans, people will always be able to identify common behavior, psychology, symbology, ideas, and emotions. Stories of childhood are especially rife with these influential circumstances, and many stories include or deliberately exclude the childhood in order to generate the notion of a person who has never been young, foolish, or vulnerable in any sense, which is often what sets them apart from normal people. In more modern storytelling, people can see adulthood be defined also as fatherhood, a point at which a man must learn to cope with the needs of other than his own. Stories about death are a huge focus for us as human beings. Stories, therefore, often deal with the explanation and categorization of post-death experiences for the very reason that people are universally terrified of the concept of their own impending doom.
