No Exit from Burial Site?

Burial Mound

The sign which made us laugh!

When we went to Sutton Hoo yesterday, we saw this sign on the right which this blog is here to disprove!   All the good men and women of true conviction say that death is an illusion.  And why? Because life is an illusion?  Not that life doesn't exist but that it just exists to either point us to or delude us away from an existence which isn't dependent on something and is beyond what we see, hear, smell and touch.  But then are we meant to turn away from life while we have it?  Oh no! I don't think so, I think that we are meant to use it and to leave a good record of what we really are and of what a wonder a human being is.  The mound on the left  is the mound of  King Radewald where his treasures were piled up  to accompany him on his journey forward.  The treasures still exist  but where is the King?  He only lives on  in the collective memory, he definitely exited from the Burial Site.  So what might a record mean? What is a life lived well?  You can see Mary Cook, my artist friend painting a portrait which will be a record of somebody.  And words and actions if they are good may live on in people's memories of us.   And if there is an afterlife what then?  Surely our good deeds or the King's heroic deeds will carry us and him forward to wherever we and he go.  So it is better to do well and be remembered for that than to be mean or jealous or unpleasant to your relatives and friends.