8850. I was shown a bald head, but only the top of it, which was bony. Then I was told that such a thing is seen by those who are going to die within a year, and that they then prepare themselves. For on that planet they have no fear of death, except that they leave behind married partner, children, or parents; for they know that they will be alive after death and that they do not relinquish life, since they go to heaven. This also explains why dying is not called dying by them but being heavenized. Those on that planet who have led lives happily filled with conjugial love, and have looked after their children as parents ought, do not die from sicknesses but peacefully, as in sleep, and in that condition pass from the world into heaven.

580. About the inhabitants of Jupiter

I have heard from their good spirits about the death of those who live on that planet, namely, that they die in their youth, for the reason advanced earlier [546], that is, so that the population does not increase too much. But they rarely die of sicknesses, as on this earth, except those who have lived an evil and superficial life; instead they die calmly, and as if in sleep, thus entering through sleep into the other life.