https://youtu.be/ZuTqSQLsJME?si=zSLiKBwcILc2GaPm
Warning dark themes, sort of had to for completionism sake. It's not necessary either but you know how it is. Drawing in itself is unnecessary. So anyway someone pointed out a flaw in the organised spiritual framework of death that I made for my world; what makes it better and irresistible for me to tackle as well, is that not only does it make perfect sense, but it ALSO made sense for me to have left this flaw in to begin with. I hope you follow, it's a little convoluted.

Magazine of accessible anthropology, issue N°617 May 1998
This issue is among a few that didn't see a reprint due to the involvement of professor Charanson; once one of the publication's greatest contributors, he appeared to be going off the rails at this time and delved into increasingly controversial fields of research.

“The theory goes that the three deaths are the ways to die which are recognized and accepted by society. One was left out early on in history due to public denial, and this strong and perennial rejection has resulted over the millenia in a process known as spiritual externalization, similarly to the entities known colloquially as personal demons : while the three other deaths are only symbolic, there are reasons to believe this cast out, offended spirit manifests in our world, invading people's nightmares and doing what it does by nature : causing fatal accidents to the healthiest members of society.
[Following there were a number of cases of traumatized people involved in deadly accidents, who claimed to have sighted the hideous shape of the alleged entity, and correlations with reports by mental health professionals; it is mostly speculative and does not meet the magazine's high scientific standards]

It is nowadays common knowledge that a number of prehistoric communities worshipped [the green Death] as their main deity and made to it the most lavish sacrifices; it was honored and feared by subsequent cultures. As societies organized and prosperity increased, and people had less of a struggle surviving winter, it got neglected more and more, until it was downright despised and reviled, its temples destroyed or repurposed. The forgotten entity only grew resentment from this new state of affairs. It is of course unfair to blame early societies for giving birth to an entity that may or may not, to this day, haunt our world, but there's hardly a better way to put it : their sacrifices gave it a very earthly taste for blood and a sense of entitlement for getting it.

A series of studies conducted in the 1950s with the few Sibryonic tribes known to have maintained the cursed cult of this deity has shed some light on the strange, but increasingly credible idea that its bannishment by modern societies to the black recoils of their subconscious has possibly made it more vicious; was it recognised as the fourth death, would the Green, or Spring death be softer?
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The measured excess deaths either unexplained or accidental had shown an odd trend. While disappearances were above national average by an order of magnitude in the Jigahong communities of [redacted] and [redacted], accidental deaths stood at a net zero – a baffling figure for any nation, let alone these critically underdeveloped communities of Sibryon, which had caught the eye of researchers working on this topic.

They of course suggested that the lesser administrative monitoring in this remote autonomous region could explain the discrepancy, however the central administration of Fizodh claimed to keep a close eye on this matter, a claim which would later come back to bite them. Moreover, the same figures appeared in Fizodh herself, as well as neighboring counties – minus the allegedly unexplained and extremely numerous disappearances.

Indeed, it later turned out that the overwhelming majority of said disappearances were not only solved, but in fact part of the excess deaths data, in the scandal known as the Fire pit (1958), which sent dozens of officials to prison including the secretary governor himself, caused hundreds more to resign and leave public life. As it was reported, although most of the details remain classified, a cult involving high ranking officials in the central administration were sacrificing healthy members of communities to what is poised to be the Green Death, although the only concrete evidences that escaped secrecy are heavily redacted court documents, and a series of photographs of ominous green statues as they were seized from the lower levels of the Fizodh townhall – the building has stood vacant and under close police surveillance ever since.

What followed was a sudden drop in disappearances, although they remained higher than national average, and concurrently, a stark rise in accidental deaths – which, under a higher scrutiny by authorities following the aforementioned scandal, could be verified as entirely blameless in the vast majority of cases. This development could of course be blamed on the collapse of trust in the authorities in the neighboring communities, but one cannot shake off the idea that perhaps, the sacrifices committed by people in power were actually keeping a resentful god satisfied.”