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== Omens and signs, dying ==
Death knocks suddenly where it is not expected, at an unforeseen moment. A type of resignation, of fate (''jin beharra'', ''gertatu beharra zen'') as if our destiny were already written. Exacerbating this concept, the person who dies shows us that there is in something in us that transcends us; as captured in that well-known saying: ''odolak baduela hamar idi parek baino indar gehiago''. Finally, there was ''Herioa,'' the grim reaper, who was believed to come and find the dying, but they did not give up the struggle easily: anyone who was weak would fall easily. That fight was followed by the community with concern (particularly if the ill person was young), and they would speak matter-of-factly of running out of time, of fighting, of remission, of strength, etc. In addition to that context, to which the discourse of the Church would have to adapt, there was a “reading of the signs”.