Like is there any record of how people may have handled or viewed death when disease was much more prevalent and fatal? Or before the advent of modern medicine and triage, when people died from simple illnesses.

You might want to say, ‘these are generalizations that express a misunderstanding of history’, but understand I am generalizing based on working in a natural history museum where we often discuss the causes of death that pertain to disease, predation, and human versus human conflict. I focus a lot of my study on the history of disease and pandemics, but I’ve not read much on how people actually viewed death that happened often and quickly. I’m not going to pin down a particular time period, because my generalization denotes that accidental death and onset of fatal illness goes back s far as humans have lived on the earth. So you can choose whatever records, time period, or information you feel can qualify this answer adequately. Please feel free to recommend any reading material that pertains to the subject.