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From Black Death To COVID-19, Pandemics Gave Always Pushed People To Honor Death And Celebrate Life!
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Halloween is the perfect occasion to play with the pandemic lesson to simultaneously celebrate life, and contemplate death.

NEW ORLEANS - LouisEagle -- Nükhet Varlik, Rutgers University - Newark

After the last couple of Halloweens were plagued by doubt and worry thanks to a global pandemic with no clear end in sight, Halloween 2022 may feel especially exciting for those ready to celebrate it. Thanks to ongoing vigilance and continuing vaccination efforts, many people in the U.S. are now fortunate enough to feel cautiously optimistic after all those awful months that have passed since March 2020.

I am a historian of pandemics. And yes, Halloween is my favorite holiday because I get to wear my plague doctor costume complete with a beaked mask.

But Halloween opens a little window of freedom for all ages. It lets people move beyond their ordinary social roles, identities and appearances. It is spooky and morbid, yet playful. Even though death is symbolically very much present in Halloween, it's also a time to celebrate life. The holiday draws from mixed emotions that resonate even more than usual during the COVID-19 era.

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Looking at the ways survivors of past pandemics tried to celebrate the triumph of life amid widespread death can add context to the present-day experience. Consider the Black Death — the mother of all pandemics.

https://theconversation.com/from-black-death-to-covid-19-pandemics-have-always-pushed-people-to-honor-death-and-celebrate-life-170517

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