“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” — 1 Corinthians 15:19
Walt Whitman was one of the first in America to articulate the modern sensibility with respect to death. He wrote in 1860, before the Civil War, that he “found that every place was a burial-place,” and that everywhere is “as full of the dead as of the living / and fuller, O vastly fuller, of the dead than of the living.”
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