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2025-12-20 17:11 UTC
@kevinrns @greene That's not lost on me; and you aren't wrong about the evidence in these graveyards of the great improvements in medicine over child mortality.
In this particular picture I counted 7 children with one date listed, so likely stillborn, out of nine total buried. That's what made me also think of the taboo that still exists around discussing stillbirth and miscarriage, and the changing culture around burial.
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@greene@wandering.shop 2025-12-20 18:00
@poleguy I do agree with you that our culture should be more open about stillbirth, but I honestly haven’t seen a big shift in burial customs around it. The vast majority of modern miscarriages happen early, and those early miscarriages never would have received headstones. I have friends who’ve had second- or third-trimester stillbirths, and those babies all have graves and headstones; the main difference is that now they also all have names, instead of just being marked “son” or “daughter.”