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I agree that funerals, regardless whether it is cremation or burial, are for the living to pay their respects to those who have passed, but rituals are very important to life on many levels. Animals perform rituals, so does insects, the planets move around stars (The Sun) in a ritualistic motion.
Rituals are very important to our inner life; the ritual of meditation or prayer, ceremonies like weddings, the dating ritual, national patriotic rituals, rituals on holidays and holy days, sports rituals, religious, spiritual, and cultural rituals, and yes the ritual acknowledging those who have died. Most of what human beings do on a daily basis is a repetitive ritual.
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