I'm really a lousy linguist, but i see two different things. That said, I see two questions.
So it's quite an effort for me about three hours of searching for words and terminologies. I hope the result will be understood. English has a lot of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expressions_related_to_death
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>I am researching Ukrainian customs regarding bees. I have learned that Rural Ukrainians have a special affection towards animals but the honey bee holds a unique position in that she is regarded as having a soul like human beings.
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>For them, it’s wrong to speak of a bee as an animal that “died” [здохла], but only as a person who has departed, passed away” [померла]. This custom is found among Belarusians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks, Croatians, Germans, Hungarians, and so forth.
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Closest to the word [здохла] [is peg out, kick off ] [česky - zdechla, zdechnout]. It is a colloquial dictionary term. or It can be used from people to animals to things, e.g. with a car in the sense of a death wish, indecent speech, e.g. in anger or in an argument between a person and a person.
[česky - včelstva uhynula] [ ukraian - загибель бджолиних сімей] . Officially speaking, e.g. journalist, veterinarian, statistician. english translat from czech lang [perish]
A polite speech in conversation, for example, when a beekeeper is chatting with a customer who wants to buy honey. [česky - všechny včely mi umřely, toto je poslední med a včelařit už nebudu] , [ukraian - померли всі бджоли] in English - all my bees have died, this is the last honey and I will not beekeeping anymore
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>I wonder how widespread this is, if it extends to western Europe as well. Even the American Whittier wrote about telling the bees, so I an curious about the origin of the idea that bees have immortal souls. Also, it is believed that they may be ancestral souls which have been reincarnated.
Reincarnation is essentially a foreign word for Slavic nationalities.
Gustav Palan
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