The modern taboo that Americans just can’t seem to break
Vox Open Sourced
JULY 24, 2025
In the early 1860s, people were, for the first time, dying away from their homes en masse. The funeral industry and the medical industry rose up together and kind of partnered to position themselves as these guardians of health and safety,” Chavez says. That is, until the Civil War.
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