While doing some road work related construction in China, workers discovered a fully dressed, 5-foot-long body buried with luxury items, including a jade ring, a silver hairpin, and more than 20 pieces of Ming-dynasty clothing.
In ancient China, it was believed that the newly dead would appear before supernatural judges.
"If you were found to be morally worthy," explains Timothy Brook, a historian at the University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, "you would be sent off for reincarnation—as a deity if you were fantastic, as a human being if you were good, as an animal if you were less good, and as a bug or a worm if you'd been really bad."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110310-wet-mummy-china-ming-science-mummies-tomb-chinese-road/#/china-ming-dynasty-mummy-found-removing_33097_600x450.jpg
You'll get this jade ringer off my finger over my dead... oh, never mind.
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