A lost language Gravestones of the 19th and 20th century were highly decorated and meaningful and people then knew what this symbols meant.  Now people are more literate, this language is lost.  Does an anchor always mean a sailor?  What is the language of flowers?  How does a gravestone have style? Join Janine the Cemetery (more…)

Buried alive Dwelling on humanity’s fear of being buried alive, in 1866 the medical journal Lancet wrote: ‘truly there is something about the very notion of such a fate calculated to make one shudder, and to send a cold steam down one’s spine.’ Hand coming out of an open coffin in (more…)