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There is no practical purpose for burial. It would make more sense and take less effort to leave the body exposed to the elements, where the ecosystem cleans up after itself, but the living insist on hiding their dead. We assume that Homo sapiens and their ancestors didn’t know about a rotting corpse’s potential for food and water contamination, so the act and subsequent ritualization of burial must come from a sentimental or spiritual place. Putting a body in the ground was only part of it— there were rites for when a member of the community passed on. Bodies were dusted in crimson ochre, heavily decorated with jewelry and tools and ceremonial clothing, and bent into certain positions on beds of flowers. Fires were lit around the grave and offerings were made to the deceased. Markers were placed on the grave so it can be found again. At one point in evolutionary history, so far back that we can no longer find it, we stopped burying people and started holding funerals for them. Science...
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