Actually, the Church doesn’t specifically teach Mary physically died or not, only that she was assumed bodily into Heaven. Pope Pius XII solemnly defined in Munificentissimus Deus on Nov. 1, 1950, that the “Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” However, if she physically died, the Church doesn’t provide a date or means.
She is Queen of Martyrs, as she is also Queen of Heaven, as mother of the King, the first Christian martyr.
It seems logical to me that Mary, being human, would have any number of human questions. What were those questions? I don’t know. However, we can suppose she may have had questions, and how she may have responded.
Think Enoch and Elijah. Similar words.
Genesis 5:24 says only that God “took” him (Enoch), but doesn’t say where. Sirach 44:16 and 49:14 make it clear that he was taken up from the earth, and Hebrews 11:5 adds “so that he should not see death.”
In Elijah’s case, 2 Kings 2:11 states that “Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” First Maccabees 2:58 adds, “Elijah because of great zeal for the Law was taken up into heaven. “
Good post. But you failed to mention that Mary, unlike other humans, was born without original sin.