They were taught that death brought their souls across a grim underground river to the realm of Hades, a gray and cheerless world. Here the spirits of the dead drifted aimlessly to and fro with troubled and eternally vacant faces. A few favorites of the gods, such as great poets and heroes, made it to the paradise of Elysium, and those whom the gods wished to punish were doomed to Tartarus, a place of eternal torment. “Empty!” said Peter. As you live your lives, remember what it cost God to make