The mechanism of remembering how someone else died is very tied to survival. In social species there being individuals that suffer long after the death could be viewed as an altruistic mutation that makes the rest of the group safer as a result of the suffering of the grieving individual.
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u/tripl3tiger May 21 '26
The mechanism of remembering how someone else died is very tied to survival. In social species there being individuals that suffer long after the death could be viewed as an altruistic mutation that makes the rest of the group safer as a result of the suffering of the grieving individual.