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prime real estate where the residents never complain about the neighbors
means A burial ground for the dead, especially one beside or attached to a church.
from A plain compound of "grave" and "yard." "Grave" descends from Old English græf (a trench or burial pit), tied to the verb grafan, "to dig" — a cousin of German graben and the same digging-root behind "groove" and "engrave." "Yard" comes from Old English geard, an enclosure or fenced plot. So the word is brutally literal: an enclosed plot full of dug holes. The softer-sounding "cemetery" arrived later from Greek koimeterion, "a sleeping place" — but "graveyard" never pretended the residents were merely napping.
- land use
- NYC's dead occupy more space than its living
- safety myth
- statistically safer than parks for nighttime walks
- shift origin
- named after night watchmen guarding fresh graves
- green space
- old cemeteries became cities' first public parks
- saved bell
- coffins once had strings to ring if buried alive
arlington national cemetery — virginia, usa; 400,000+ graves of military service members since 1864
highgate cemetery — london, england; 170,000 burials including karl marx, where the 'vampire of highgate' was allegedly sighted in 1970s