He attends his mother's funeral, but refuses to see his mother's body and finds it interesting to think about the correlation between heat and the rate of decay of a human body (page ~ ). During the funeral procession he is cold, he is distant from the people around him and gives the impression of not worrying about his mother's death since he "can't remember almost any detail" of the funeral (p. 26). It is clear that his mother's death does not affect him and that it has little meaning for him: "Really, nothing had changed in my life." (p. 33). Meursault shows an example of his existentialist traits through the fact that he does not know his mother's age when asked by ~ (p. ~). He is an absurd man because he doesn't have the slightest care towards his family