As a study at Penn State University notes, the practice of the “ritual suicide” of servants, or “volunteering” to be buried alive at the funerals of their high-status masters was common in Shang dynasty China.
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I’ll keep my day job, thanks.
Gold plated pension plans look pretty good, and selling out to the government to get one seems as old as the hills.
Poor innocent horses. They didn’t volunteer to die slowly.
Must have been a great honor, or, they were drunk, or, they were merely flunkies dressed up as warriors.
My thoughts exactly... Volunteering to die is not a good job. It’s a DEAD end job... 🤓