All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person. The pages of my book are made from the pulp of raw wood from a tree felled in its prime.
Plants grow from the decayed matter of former plants. To cremate bodies we burn fossil fuel, thus named because it is made of decomposed dead organisms. While a new Crossrail station was being dug in London in 2015, 3,500 bodies were excavated from a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cemetery under Liverpool Street, including a burial pit from the Great Plague of 1665. These bodies represent a history that exists, often unknown, beneath our feet. The question is posed as if the stacked bones and skulls, the rows of coffins, the rare mummies, could all be part of a spooky haunted-crypt attraction instead of the very history of the city in which they live.Īt almost any location in any major city on Earth, you are likely standing on thousands of bodies. But what visitors, especially young visitors, really want to know is, “Are the bodies real?”
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