A vision of the afterlife is articulated by every culture, ancient or modern, in an effort to answer the question of what happens after death. Ancient Persia had the same interest in this as any culture of the past or in the present day and provided one of the most interesting, and compassionate, answers.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1485/death-and-the-afterlife-in-ancient-persia/.