To the ancient Egyptians, death was not the end of life but only the beginning of the next phase in an individual's eternal journey. There was no word in ancient Egyptian which corresponds to the concept of "death" as usually defined, as "ceasing to live", since death was simply a transition to another phase of one's eternal existence.
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