It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.
Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk, and sing – though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side passed the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax.
But Red had been so shocked by his own death, and fast escape from the bloody mess, he simply forgot to take in the airs of Heaven, as they were.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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