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A History of Death: Unitarian Universalist Style

The earliest Anglo-American burials in Puritan North America took place in graveyards, where grave markers often included the motif of a skull, or death head, sometimes with or without wings.  These markers, as well as the burial grounds themselves, were intended to make people fearful. …