The history of funeral service is a history of mankind.
Funeral customs are as old as civilization itself.
Every culture and civilization attends to the proper care of their dead. With no great psychological knowledge or custom to draw from, Neanderthal man instinctively buried their dead with ritual and ceremony. The Role of Fear Primitive man lived in a world of fear. He reacted to most natural phenomena such as weather events based on that fear. He eventually attributed many life events to his instinctive knowledge of a higher being or power.