Burial is considered to be a sign of belief in the after life, apparently. At least, it is if the bones are found straight and orderly, not like they've been dumped in a hole to avoid bears.
When you think about it, organized religion has caused nothing but trouble. Yet burial may be the single most comforting thing we can do to brace for our own demise.
Once burial is common practice, in the back of your mind, you always know that you will be cared for after death. Not in a "I will hold your memory to my heart forever" sort of way, it just shows that after you die, you still exist.
Is that enough to push away all nervousness about the great abyss? No, certainly not.
But it helps, right?
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