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These sprawling, landscaped, country environments were built to replace the grim, overcrowded, often-religious graveyards in town centers. There, reminders of death had been too close to home, too macabre, with the smell of decaying flesh literally wafting through the streets. Proponents of rural cemeteries hoped that separating graves from daily life would help death feel more profound. The way some say that distance makes the heart grow fonder, burial visionaries hoped distance from death would make us wiser. According to historian Stanley French, they believed that if people spent time around the dead in beautiful natural environments, these forces would coalesce to impart the wisdom that “the circle of creation and destruction is eternal.”

Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape Covering two million acres of U.S. soil, cemeteries are lush with potential for the living and the land.

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Military Funeral Honors Military funeral honors are about respecting those who have served in our Armed Forces. Learn how certain elements make these memorials special.

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