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From Black Death to COVID-19, pandemics have always pushed people to honor death and celebrate life

  • Written by Nükhet Varlik, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
From Black Death to COVID-19, pandemics have always pushed people to honor death and celebrate lifeDeath waits for no man – and pandemics drive the point home.Pieter Brueghel the Elder: 'The Triumph of Death', CC BY

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