“Say not a word,” he answered, “in death’s favour; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.”
~ The Odyssey - Book XI (Samuel Butler Translation. p247)
In Book 11 of The Odyssey, as per instructions from Circe, Ulysses travels to Hades, the Underworld, to consult the prophet Teiresias on how to return home. He sees a lot of dead people, including his mother, Achilles, Agamemnon, etc. Most are sad, often asking Ulysses about their dear ones who are alive.
It is fascinating to think that there is a place where the souls of the dead go. If it was just one place, it would be crowded already because of the billions of people who have died already, and finding someone you knew from that crowd would be almost impossible. But even if there is such a place and if you talk to a random person after you are dead, would they talk about their earthly life? What if they lived a thousand years ago? They might have already told countless people about their life, and recounting again seems pointless. A lot of theories about the afterlife seem preposterous in analysis. They surely are a testament to the depth of human imagination, though.