[HN Gopher] Macabre Mystery of a British Family's Skull-Topped S...
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       Macabre Mystery of a British Family's Skull-Topped Spoons
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-03-09 15:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tokai wrote:
       | Damn, my baby spoon was not nearly as cool. It's interesting how
       | something that was pious in the 17th century seem kind of Metal
       | now.
        
       | DavidAdams wrote:
       | It's hard to believe now how common it was for children to die in
       | infancy before modern medicine. Parents didn't love their kids
       | any less, though, so it was a source of great pain. As the
       | article points out, "memento mori" stuff was a way to inoculate
       | yourself emotionally for the inevitable incidence of one of your
       | small children dying.
        
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