The ancient Egyptians believed that as long as your name was spoken or written, you existed in the afterlife. I hope that OJ's "legacy" is always tainted.

@Gwen_Wanderer Unless Ma'at weighed your heart against a feather and found you wanting, for then your soul would feed the unmerciful Ammit (part lion, part hippo, with the head and teeth of a crocodile) the consumer of the unworthy and your essence was gone for all time

@Gwen_Wanderer For his legacy not to be tainted people would have to start believing that the real killer was never caught.

@DenoPenno
That's how revisionist history works.

If you say Napoleon could fly, and I produce a testimony from some contemporary who says he COULD fly. Then history offers a possibility that he was able to fly.

This the seed left for future generations that grow in to blooming Alt. History

This is why even now history is forced to acknowledge Holocaust deniers exist, their ideas exist and therefore there is a school of thought that the holocaust was a myth.

Next to that OJ is just a tangerine.

@LenHazell53 true, but the beliefs of the Egyptians were varied and underwent change over the centuries. At first, only the pharaoh could attain the afterlife. Then, his family could also attain it. Finally, anyone could do so if they could afford to be embalmed.

They feared oblivion more than torture--this is why being fed to Ammut/Ammit was the worst thing which could happen to them.

The issue of the name still applies. This is why Hatshepsut's successor tried to remove her name from writings and statuary, etc., as did successors of other pharaohs. It is why pharaohs and commoners wrote their names in secret places.

And of course, being able to live forever also included a very difficult trek through Duat/Tuat. Everyone did not "survive" the trip.

Here is a video I made on afterlives for a myth class which I used to teach.

@Gwen_Wanderer
Thanks for that, coincidently some years ago I used to write lectures on British folk lore and myth for a late friend of mine in the US who taught a similar class on Myth and Legend.
Her name was Cynthia Ross and she died of cancer in the 2000's but I am glad people like yourself are still bringing this wonderful world of anthropological, cultural history and story telling to those of us who love it and endeavour to keep it alive.

@LenHazell53 my classes in myth were always full, but the school cancelled them because they were not part of the "regular" curriculum and would not transfer to a four year college/uni (this was at a community college).

I taught myth on the undergrad side at a uni and even designed the course. Then, I was moved "up" to teach graduate classes in Brit lit. The grad side does not have a myth course. And yes, I have asked my dean if there would ever be one, and he is very doubtful.

I also taught a class at the CC on Myth and Monsters. It was very popular until, again, it was cancelled.

Most people are interested in myth. On the flip side, I had a couple of students who dropped my courses because I taught the Bible as myth. One said she could NOT compare the tale of Noah to other flood myths because Noah was real and the other floods weren't. She got an "F" for the assignment.

I don't think so, and my reasoning, is that the nature of the murders was so personal and vicious, as far as how the two people were attacked and killed, that if it way more with a crime of passion and rage, rather than a cold-blooded hit by a stranger who was hired, unless OJ had specifically ordered it to be done that way, which, being the creep he was, is entirely possible. But I still feel that was less likely to be what happened..

Either way he would be responsible and as equally horrific

And I am one of them .This guy is a disgrace to the black community,and my parents were outraged when racist blacks cheered when he beat the rap .

@biguy12 You're not the only one. The woman I'm currently dating is black, age 72, and remembers well what a wife-beating, oreo, kiss ass to white America sort of black man OJ was, and told me it was good riddance as far as she was concerned. She always believed he was guilty and also was ashamed of how he was cheered on by so many black Americans back then..

Well said