In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts.

[…] surface smooth, glabrous, slightly viscid, hygrophanous, miniatous when young, becoming testaceous at the center and […]

And while political analysts and government officials in the region say the spreading Sunni disillusionment with Shiites and their backers in Iran will benefit Sunni-led governments and the United States, they and others worry that the tensions could start to balkanize the region as they have in Iraq itself.

[T]thoſe that ſeeke me early, ſhall find me.