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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In ancient Greek they put coins into the mouth of dead people to pay the ferryman for a trip over the Styx to the underworld. (I think it was bronze coins, correct me pls if I'm wrong.)

So yes it must be dead in the first place.

[โ€“] candyman337 3 points 12 hours ago

Right but opossums are known to play dead, so they're saying that it could have been playing and they just made it choke to death on a penny