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Death Through the Ages: A Brief Overview - The Eighteenth Century

The fear of apparent death that took root in the seventeenth century resurfaced with great intensity during the eighteenth century. Coffins were built with contraptions to enable any prematurely buried person to survive and communicate from the grave. (See Figure 1.1.)

For the first time the Christian Church was blamed for hastily burying its "living dead," particularly because it had encouraged the abandonment of "pagan" burial traditions such as protracted mourning rituals. In the wake of apparent death incidents, more lengthy burial traditions were revived.

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