What is the true meaning of ';R.I.P';?

I know it means ';rest in peace';,


but if you're dead, its not like you're going to be disrupted, right?What is the true meaning of ';R.I.P';?
Well, back in the early days, folks were not so sure that dead was dead. Stories of vampires were not ';just'; stories. The concept of the tombstone was not just a place to write who the dead person was, but a way to hold them in their grave. Many of today's death rituals were designed to keep the dead in their graves or ';on the other side';. Mythology, fairy tales, and real life were very twisted together. Superstitions ran pretty high.What is the true meaning of ';R.I.P';?
' rest in peace%26gt;'


from the latin 'requiest in pacem'
Requisat in pacem.