![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing that this was the gruesome fate that awaited their bodies after death, people grew more afraid of dying than ever before. Graves of nineteenth-century paupers were also unprotected, making them easy prey for Victorian bodysnatchers who made a living from selling corpses to anatomists and medical students. In addition, their bodies were covered in a caustic quicklime solution to speed up their decomposition. The bodies of deceased paupers were piled into mass graves, without tombstones or inscriptions to commemorate the dead. But in the nineteenth century, these comforts were taken away from the lower class in the West, exacerbating the fear of death and creating pauperization. Similarly, people who live in fear of losing their jobs struggle with the deeper fear that they might lose their livelihoods, their homes and, in the worst case scenario, ultimately die after being forced to live on the streets.įor thousands of years, rituals, ceremonies and beliefs celebrating the afterlife negated the human fear of death. Those afraid of spiders, snakes and crocodiles don’t fear the creatures per se, but rather the prospect that these animals could kill them. ![]() Nearly all human fears can be traced back, in one way or another, to a fear of dying. These environments draw our minds toward the greatest human fear – mortality. ![]() Many people grow uncomfortable after spending too long in hospitals, retirement homes and cemeteries. ![]()
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