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Reasons for human burial
Bacterias start decomposing a body after death, when unpleasant smells are emitted due to the formation of gases resulting from decay. Burial after all is not necessarily a public health requirement, it is more a matter of decency and of honouring the dead. It spares the people from the unpleasant spectacle of seeing the degeneration of some one alive before. The World Health Organization do not subscribe to such popular wisdom, and recommend that only corpses carrying an infectious disease strictly require burial.
Universally, however, burials represent that code of conduct that people who were once among us deserved respect when they were gone. The answer to how and why it evolved may be found in the reasons following :
The mortal remains of the deceased who was once close do not diminish in value to the living. Left on the ground and under the open sky, it would attract scavenging animals whose method of disposal would be particularly gruesome. Excepting the Parsee, all other cultures regard eating of the corpse of the departed by scavengers particularly abhorrent and totally disrespectful.
The word closure in psychology means bringing to an end a particularly painful chapter in one’s life, like the death of a loved one. Burial in this sense hastens the process, removing the person’s body out of sight. But out of sight is not always out of mind. This is especially true of the victims of violent crimes, there closure never really comes. The wound is not healed; it stays on in another form.
Like all other organic creatures on the earth, the human beings are also allotted a specific length of time, after
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