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Prepared For: Dr. M. Latta Course Code: ANTC50H3 WARNING: The following material deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. SYNOPSIS The following study attempts to tackle the thorny issue of stratification within the cemetery, as detailed observations from resident graves provided possible insight into the underlying sociocultural ideologies that may predominate in this nonliving society. Toronto Necropolis, an early cemetery located on Downtown Toronto's east side, is the focus of this study. Over a period of two days, a meticulous examination of two discrete sections of the cemetery was completed taking into consideration all the available information present at the site. Factors taken into account included discrepancies in life expectancies, marker size etc. All the gathered information was suitably plotted subsequently. Simple assumptions were made in regards to differences between the examined sites and how these differences could provide an empirical clue into the existence of stratification within cemeteries. And while the only sure things in life are death and taxes, death is surely not the great leveler.
"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born." -Gary Mark Gilmore "Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn’t get any worse." -L.A. Times Syndicate "Death has but one terror, that it has no tommorow." -Eric Hoffer "Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Well, dying isn't so bad. At least I'll be reunited with my dad, my dog, and that plant I never watered." -Barney Gumbel
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