Well, isn't that a sign they HAVE been damned?
Funeral after funeral, when the guest of honor died young, the shaman gets up and tries to spin it that God was SO VERY PLEASED with them that He took them early, taking them from this vale of tears up to Paradise to be at His side. He or She was BLESSED to die before their 20th birthday or their second anniversary, or before any of their kids died.
The only possible conclusion from this sort of rationalization is that those of us living long lives, especially as we age and lose faculties, teeth, flexibility, friends, sex drives, hair... We're denied paradise for as long as the bastard skybeast can push us away. So we're the damned.
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