Mises Wire
Author:
B.K. Marcus
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From BigWhiteGuy.com (”Adventures of a BigWhiteGuy living in Hong Kong”), comes an explanation of Chinese “Hell Notes” : The Chinese believe that when someone dies, his spirit goes to the afterlife, where it lives on, doing much the same things it did in life. Surviving relatives want to send gifts to make the afterlife as comfortable as possible.