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Funeral Customs: Chapter II: Death Warnings--When Does Death Take Place?

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IT is perhaps natural that around the three great mysteries--birth, love and death--a crowd of superstitions cling, the children of those unnamed fears which accompany so many of us from the cradle to the grave, and which certainly dominated the lives of less enlightened generations. That death, the greatest of all mysteries, should be singled out to be embroidered with many fantasies does not surprise us. Many of the superstitions which we shall note are obviously nothing more than a chain of…

Funeral Customs: Chapter II: Death Warnings--When Does Death Take Place?

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