Is putting two coins over the eyes still practiced today?

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2026-05-05 05:50

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The practice of placing to coins over a dead persons eyes, was due to the belief that for a dead person to cross the River Styx into Hades. They had to pay the ferryman two silver coins or else they were trapped eternally on the other side. This practice died out two millennia ago.

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