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Why Are Graves 6 Feet Deep?

Medical schools in the early 1800s bought cadavers for anatomical study and dissection, and some people supplied the demand by digging up fresh corpses. Gravesites reaching six feet helped prevent farmers from accidentally plowing up bodies. Why are we buried 6 feet under the ground? People may have also buried bodies 6 feet deep to …

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