The Egyptians believed that every person was composed of three essential elements: body, ba, and ka. The body is the physical body and is unique to each individual. As a person gets older, so the body ages and changes - the Egyptians' expressed the idea of growing up as a process of "making changes" - and death is the last change. Each person also has a ba. Though the ba is also unique to each …showed first 75 words of 550 total…

…showed last 75 words of 550 total…ka and form what is called akh. The Egyptian's believed that there are only three kinds of beings that inhabit the hereafter: the dead, the gods, and akhs. Akhs are those who have successfully made the transition to new life in the next world, where they live with the gods. The dead are those who have failed to make the transition. It is said that they have "died again," with no hope of renewed life.