Abstract

The Irish poet W. B. Yeats once wrote, with great sapience and perception:Nor dread, nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.That death has ever been a problem to man is attested as far back as we can trace our species in the archaeological record—indeed, it seems to have been a problem even for that immediate precursor of homo sapiens, the so-called Neanderthal Man; for he buried his dead.

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