ABSTRACT
Folk wisdom views life as perpetual tumult and turmoil, with the grave as the sole and fi nal place of rest. A person dies and people say, “May he rest in peace,” though everyone knows that cadavers need neither rest nor peace. Henry Ward Beecher observed, “There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.”1 Similar remarks abound. The metaphor of death as rest and sleep is alive and well.
