Talk:Mermaid/@comment-166.137.244.89-20151012191346/@comment-78.20.131.40-20151013173059

"original mythology never really said anything about how long most monsters lived."

Really? Then it must have been the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale I remembered. You know, that mermaids live much longer than humans, but in exchange don't have an afterlife to go to and dissolve into sea foam?