King Ashurbanipal:
"My sweet, you need not take this voyage with me! It's not your strength that wanes!"
Queen Ashursharrat:
"I have been with you from the beginning, my love! Besides who would do your makeup in the after-life if I remained behind?"

King Ashurbanipal:
"It has been said you have hated my womanly ways!"
Queen Ashursharrat:
"Pshaw!!! The only thing that pissed me off is you looked better in my clothes than I did!"  

"Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequence, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death. "
Polybius - (Histories, ca. 203-120 B.C.E.)