In Egypt, people would mainly focus on the afterlife instead of their current life in the world. They lived their live with the motives for what would come when they died. Their belief was that their Ka, soul, was to be weighed on a scale with a feather by the god Horus. If their Ka was lighter than the feather, their soul would be able to advance to the after world. If their Ka was heavier, there were banned in limbo for eternity.
The Greeks also did a great deal for when a death was to occur, and their belief in the afterlife was strong. At the moment of death, they believed that the psyche, or spirit of the dead, was left from the body. In the Underworld, Hades and his wife, Persephone, was in charge of the countless crowds of shadowy figures or the "shades" of all those who had died.
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