David Charles Sloane

And so how do you get that miasma? They thought it was from decomposing material. And so the dead are decomposing. So they became a threat. that they would say you died of smallpox or you died of cholera, would you then decompose in a way that would allow cholera to go into this miasma and create a danger? So that's the first thing that happens.

The second thing that happens is romanticism. And romanticism emerges in Europe and then moves through Britain into the United States that nature is beneficial. Beneficial for health reasons, beneficial spiritual reasons, it's beneficial for all sorts of things.

The second thing that happens is romanticism. And romanticism emerges in Europe and then moves through Britain into the United States that nature is beneficial. Beneficial for health reasons, beneficial spiritual reasons, it's beneficial for all sorts of things.

The second thing that happens is romanticism. And romanticism emerges in Europe and then moves through Britain into the United States that nature is beneficial. Beneficial for health reasons, beneficial spiritual reasons, it's beneficial for all sorts of things.

So if you put those two together, then the idea becomes if we suburbanize the dead in a larger place that we can protect and use for a very long time to bury the dead, we protect the living, we protect the dead. And we can use that space, remember it, before... 1860, there's very few public parks in any city in the United States. So we can use that as a recreational area.

So if you put those two together, then the idea becomes if we suburbanize the dead in a larger place that we can protect and use for a very long time to bury the dead, we protect the living, we protect the dead. And we can use that space, remember it, before... 1860, there's very few public parks in any city in the United States. So we can use that as a recreational area.

So if you put those two together, then the idea becomes if we suburbanize the dead in a larger place that we can protect and use for a very long time to bury the dead, we protect the living, we protect the dead. And we can use that space, remember it, before... 1860, there's very few public parks in any city in the United States. So we can use that as a recreational area.

No. It would have still been weird. You wouldn't go jogging. You wouldn't throw baseballs. What they did is they got in their carriages and they rode around the cemetery. Flowers, trees, green grass. They're like, this is great. And they might, in some cemeteries, stop and have a picnic at the grave of someone they knew or someone who was famous.

No. It would have still been weird. You wouldn't go jogging. You wouldn't throw baseballs. What they did is they got in their carriages and they rode around the cemetery. Flowers, trees, green grass. They're like, this is great. And they might, in some cemeteries, stop and have a picnic at the grave of someone they knew or someone who was famous.

No. It would have still been weird. You wouldn't go jogging. You wouldn't throw baseballs. What they did is they got in their carriages and they rode around the cemetery. Flowers, trees, green grass. They're like, this is great. And they might, in some cemeteries, stop and have a picnic at the grave of someone they knew or someone who was famous.

And so you would have this sort of celebrity culture. Oh, wow. And lots and lots of people did this. Over the course of a year, tens of thousands of people would go visit Greenwood in Brooklyn or Mount Auburn in Cambridge.

And so you would have this sort of celebrity culture. Oh, wow. And lots and lots of people did this. Over the course of a year, tens of thousands of people would go visit Greenwood in Brooklyn or Mount Auburn in Cambridge.

And so you would have this sort of celebrity culture. Oh, wow. And lots and lots of people did this. Over the course of a year, tens of thousands of people would go visit Greenwood in Brooklyn or Mount Auburn in Cambridge.

So that really has to do with the 19th century believed in a closer relationship between living and death. you know, all sorts of ways. I'll give you one very simple way. When a person died, often at home, they would snip pieces of locks of their hair, they would put them in these elaborate creations, and they would put them on the wall of their house.

So that really has to do with the 19th century believed in a closer relationship between living and death. you know, all sorts of ways. I'll give you one very simple way. When a person died, often at home, they would snip pieces of locks of their hair, they would put them in these elaborate creations, and they would put them on the wall of their house.

So that really has to do with the 19th century believed in a closer relationship between living and death. you know, all sorts of ways. I'll give you one very simple way. When a person died, often at home, they would snip pieces of locks of their hair, they would put them in these elaborate creations, and they would put them on the wall of their house.

You know, they'd walk into a house, and in the living room, there'd be a little thing of the young daughter who had died. So, starting in the 1920th century, right, it happens as early as the latter part of the 19th century, really takes off in the middle of the 20th century. Americans begin to really distance themselves from the dead and from death. Why? Why?

You know, they'd walk into a house, and in the living room, there'd be a little thing of the young daughter who had died. So, starting in the 1920th century, right, it happens as early as the latter part of the 19th century, really takes off in the middle of the 20th century. Americans begin to really distance themselves from the dead and from death. Why? Why?

You know, they'd walk into a house, and in the living room, there'd be a little thing of the young daughter who had died. So, starting in the 1920th century, right, it happens as early as the latter part of the 19th century, really takes off in the middle of the 20th century. Americans begin to really distance themselves from the dead and from death. Why? Why?

Well, cultural trends are one of the most difficult things to parse out.