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Humans have longstanding traditions of handling death and dead bodies with reverence and care. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize these things as “psychol
by clay_the_ripper 7y ago
Humans have longstanding traditions of handling death and dead bodies with reverence and care.
I don’t think it’s fair to characterize these things as “psychological attachments”.
Rituals, traditions and emotions are important for human beings, and appear across cultures for thousands of years and will continue to do so as long as humans are human.
We aren’t robots. We don’t do “logical” things al the time. And that’s for the good.
- lotsofpulp 7y ago>We aren’t robots. We don’t do “logical” things al the time. And that’s for the good. Some might consider spending considerable amounts of society's resources after people no longer alive at the expense of the living and future people to not be good. There's paying respects to one's loved ones, but sometimes it seems to cross into ornate displays of consumption.
- Zelphyr 7y agoMany (most?) people aren’t altogether rational when they’re grieving the loss of a loved one and it’s made worse by the fact that we often make these decisions at the height of our grief, hours or days after that person has died.