How Cemeteries Get Creative to Survive in Their Role of Caring for the Dead

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How Cemeteries Get Creative to Survive in Their Role of Caring for the Dead

Sat, 10/30/2021 - 22:04
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As a teenager, I frequently walked to St. Stephen Cemetery after school to sit by my mom’s headstone. She died in a car accident when I was seven and I didn’t confront what that meant for me until adolescence. A local cemetery frequently hosts events and entertainment in their space, and it didn’t sit with me well at first. It seemed flip. Disrespectful at the least. An exploitation of death at…

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