re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I like most people (I suppose) feel a bit uneasy when going to a cemetery. Yet when I’ve gone to one and hung out there a while, I start to feel ok with it.

How we treat our dead is probably what makes us humans human. Anthropologists and archeologists pay special attention to the discoveries of how people treat the deceased. When it was discovered that some Neanderthal remains had been buried the nature of the Neanderthals changed, in our view. And that is also happening in South Africa with the Homo naledi remains, for if they were intentionally placed in the cave after death by their fellows, then does that make H. naledi “human”?