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The fear of the end and its existence is in other words the fear of death.

The fear of death ritualized the lives of our ancestors.

These rituals were designed to reduce that fear ; they helped collect the cultural ideas that we now have in the present.

These rituals also helped preserve the cultural ideas.

The results and methods of human existence had been changing at the same time that social formation was changing.

One can say that the formation of communities happened because people lived in fear.

The result of this fear forced people to unite to fight dangers together rather than fight alone.