• spieles21@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    In ancient Greek they put coins into the mouth of dead people to pay the ferryman for a trip over the Styx to the underworld. (I think it was bronze coins, correct me pls if I’m wrong.)

    So yes it must be dead in the first place.

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      23 hours ago

      Right but opossums are known to play dead, so they’re saying that it could have been playing and they just made it choke to death on a penny