Memories of the 28th Century

Eternal Souls

While writing about the death penalty the matter of the human soul came to mind. Apparently the soul has a long history among humans. There were burials in prehistoric times that strongly suggest that people believed in souls even back then. Bodies were buried with tools and weapons, and that does suggest belief in an afterlife, while the flowers and ochre dyes could be taken to mean the same, but they might also be signs of denial of the loss. Within the last ten thousand ...