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.
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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Also pointing out that religion is manmade, just like traditions. Religion Simply gave a religious meaning to a lot of rituals & traditions
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