Death

**Death, Burial, Inheritance!**
Death, a very sad thing. Death wasn't just a sad thing in the medieval times it was a thing that occurred practically every day to someone you love, all thanks to a disease called the Black Plague. The Black Plague killed many people during the medieval times. Every single day you would wake up and here the news that one of your friends, family members, and famous people were dead. Some People thought that dying was the right to god's kingdom (Heaven), others thought that you died if you committed a sin.

Christians thought that death was to be joyful, and not feared. An example of this is they would wear colorful clothes to funerals instead of your usual black clothes. Others who thought it was sad would wear your normal black. The church usually taught you that death separated the soul form the body, which is what we have discovered since they said that.

Burial goes on the exact same way as it happens today. Body is taken to church, funeral, and then buried into there grave. Inheritance works a little bit differently then it does today. There was no will, instead your heirs would receive everything you left to them after you die. Well there you have it Death, Burial, and Inheritance all summed up into three paragraphs!

Works Cited AM
 * “Death and Burial.” Medieval World. Ed. Sally MacEarchen. Vol. 3. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2001. 31-32. Print.
 * “Death and Burial in Europe.” The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 25-26. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 9 Mar. 2010.
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