"EVOLUTION OF PERCEPTIONS OF DEATH AND ATTITUDES TO BURIAL AND COMMEMORATION"

The issues of birth and death have been recognized as the most important stage of human life in the cultures and traditions of different historical periods and all peoples and remain so. Views related to the birth and death of a person have always been a special ceremony, custom, and tradition, and have been paid attention to since ancient times. Because human death is understood as a period of responsible transition to another world. Based on this, folk and religious views about death have been formed or developed over thousands of years.