Of all the things I've ever been blocked for, saying ppl who don't believe in afterlife also bury loved ones with tokens is the oddest.
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Maybe if we go hundreds of years w/out belief in an afterlife, we will just tip bodies in holes & not care about a good 'send-off.'
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But I suspect there's more to the human need to tend to our dead, make them 'comfortable', & personalise our goodbyes than this one belief.
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It's completely irrational to spend a lot of money on pillowed coffins, put bodies in best clothes with personal tokens &set fire to the lot
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But, in other ways it's absolutely rational because it fulfils psychological needs to show we cared abt you, we knew you, you were special.
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I don't think this fully explained by belief in an afterlife & I don't think it'll go away if no-1 believes in 1 for centuries. Cld be wrong
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I'm atheist. I don't believe in the supernatural etc. But I love folklore, traditions, rituals etc. How we treat the ppl in our lives, alive
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or dead, is part of who we are. Many have meaning. And no religion influences this for me. So, I will always take part in the traditions
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Surrounding live & death. Simply because they have meaning beyond religion.
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