Why do we need to keep vigil when we pass away

Ancient people believed that people should go home to visit within three days after death, so their children waited in the hearth, waiting for his soul to return. Every night there are friends and relatives to accompany the vigil, until the remains of the coffin into the coffin until. Evolved to the present, the wake is the relatives get together to mourn the dead, express the feelings of remembrance.

A folk custom called the vigil, it is the living people of the deceased relatives of a kind of memorial. In ancient times, the wake was also called a vigil