Life on the Isle of the Lost

Death

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Descendants belongs to Disney.

TW: Talks of death, murder, and child death

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Death. Death is the first thing that many Isle children know. Dying in childbirth is very common due to the lack of a medical system. Illnesses were prevalent and fatal, especially for young children.

For Harriet Hook, she experienced death for the first time at five years old, when her mother died giving birth to her sister. That was also the same time she became a mother to her brother and sister.

For Celia Facilier her first experience with death was when she was only a couple of minutes old when her mother died in childbirth. No one knows why it happened.

For Gil, his first experience was when he was three and both his brothers got sick, then his mom. His brothers recovered and survived, but his mother didn't

People saw others die in the streets from starvation, Illness, or murder. Murder is common on the Isle. They were villains what did you expect? People were stabbed in the streets if they had something the other person wanted. Sometimes they were stabbed because they pissed off the other person. There was really no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes people were poisoned. You didn't really know if you were until it was too late. But it wasn't like you could do something about it anyways.

Funerals on the Isle weren't a thing. There wasn't enough open ground to make a cemetery or enough materials to make tombstones. So the people of the Isle adapted. Dead bodies were either eaten by the animals that inhabited the land like lions, hyenas, or tigers or they were taken at the end of the week and dumped in the ocean.

But before the bodies were taken, family or friends of the deceased would take off any clothes, jewelry, or accessories they wanted to keep, or the body collector would take their things and sell them for food.

Deaths were recorded and kept at Dragon Hall. Deaths for the week are always announced on Saturday in the marketplace.

Death is the first and last thing that many VKs know.

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Hoped you enjoyed! This isn't going to have a schedule like my other stories but should still come out often.

I got the inspiration for this story in English class reading "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Ciseros.