Deletion of Life debt

Comment: The "life for a life" or "I owe you my life" trope is extremely widespread and it seems silly to contemplate gathering all of the places where it has been used into an article. At a minimum, this article needs to be |blown up and restarted (possibly under a new title) to discuss this general theme and any scholarly attention it may have received. We encounter it most often in fiction sources; is there evidence that some real cultures had a variant? https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/35997/has-any-real-world-culture-actually-included-a-life-debt-tradition question asked on stackexchange-history For now, though, this article needs to go
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)