7000 years ago hunter gatherers on the shore of lake Baikal buried a dog that had died of distemper in the same manner they would a human. Distemper usually kills in 3 weeks, it lived over 20 weeks, almost certainly being hand fed and cared for with no benefit to these people.
Unfathomable amounts of people have fallen in love, found beauty in a sunset, were brave, cowardly, loyal, traitors, died fighting senseless wars in the names of tribes and gods that will never be remembered for an amount of time literally incomprehensible