Day 223

There's no set time and place for death, though we do try to contain it in our own ways.
We send our elderly to homes and rarely expect them to return, we dedicate hospital wards
to the terminally ill and in some cases we have buildings dedicated to legally ending life.

Have you ever wondered why we try to keep death in these places?
Why we try so desperately to capture death, hold it away from us and lock it up.
Maybe you already know.

Restless spirits are technically the third largest cause of death globally.
Poltergeist, possessions, mirror fiends, sensory trappers, even objects like ghost ships.
There are more now than there ever have been.

The places we dedicate to death are special in both location and design.
A living animal is usually placed in the north facing wall and left to suffocate.
Its' suffering creates a magnet for those who will die there to stop them from wandering.
This doesn't always work, some dead are just too set in their routines.

Alongside the dead animal, prayers and instructions are written on the first layer of the
inner walls before plaster and wallpaper are layered on top.
These are used to distract the spirits who will have the unstoppable urge to read every word.
However, most spirits lose all comprehension of written language when they split from their body.

But they are learning.

Soon our death rooms will not hold them in and they will escape.

Every morgue, cemetery, hospital, retirement home, everywhere.

They will all escape.