How to Read a Graveyard

Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it.

Our contemporary rituals seek to sanitise death and distance us from our own inevitable fate. If we want to know how previous generations dealt with death, graveyards (famous and not) tell us the history - if we are able to read them. If we want to know how we s...