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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
The Irish poet W. B. Yeats once wrote, with great sapience and perception:
Nor dread, nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading 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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