In order to understand the ancient Egyptian concept of death and dying, one must first understand the absolute longing and love for life the ancient Egyptians had (Brewer & Teeter 2008: 166).  The latter devotion and love for life propelled the ancient Egyptian people into an obsessive desire (Richards 1997: 33; Brewer & Teeter 2008: 166) for their lives to continue in heaven [the field of reeds] in the same manner of luxury, pomp and pageantry as their lives had been whilst they were alive. Egyptian Egypt and the Egyptians The Art of Ancient Egypt