[UA] N.E.S.W.

[mrteapot]

>         IIRC, "gone west" is WWI era British pilot slang
> for dead.  I don't know precisely what it means - but you
> gotta figure it had something to do with Germany being
> East of them. 

Actually, West being connected with death shows up fairly
universally in mythology, IIRC.  In Egypt, the land of the
dead was the Western Lands, and in China they'd say someone
important went west instead of dying.  In the Oddyssey,
Homer places the land of the dead to the west, etc.  A
leading theory connects the symbolic daily death of the sun
(in a sunset) with normal people's deaths.

Mr. Teapot
going west
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