Talk:Chicharrón/@comment-31041211-20180322122900/@comment-35890770-20180615210108

I've taken a bunch of Death and Dying classes for Anthropology, and we spent a LOT of time on Indigenous Latin American cultures. To perhaps ease anyone's mind, you're probably right!

The Aztecs in particular strongly believed that you had an important role to play in life, including after death. Your heart went to the afterlife and fulfilled its many roles to ensure that the world and its inhabitants were being taken care of. Eventually, you would cease to exist, but your essence would reincarnate into another living being, whethert that was a bird, animal, plant, or a new person. That was something that was up for debate with my professor of this class, whether it was related to the "three deaths" belief, that your final death is your actual self fading, and becoming another, brand new being.

So while this scene was very bittersweet and sad, I hope anyone reading this can find comfort in some indigenous beliefs on reincarnation. Maybe Chicharron is a rascally bulldog.