1. Victorian Cemeteries, Cities of the dead.
Rebecca Press

2. Victorian attitudes towards death

3. Victorian attitudes towards death (2)

4. Magnificent 7
Highgate 1830’s sketch

5. Magnificent 7 (2)
The London Cemetery Company designed all 7, many features within the cemeteries have similarities.
Kensal Green
Highgate
West Brompton

6. Highgate
Circle of Lebanon
Egyptian Avenue

7. Highgate (2)

8. Further steps/expansion

9. Highgate today

10. Highgate today (2)

11. Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT.“
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.” 
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.” 
Epicurus
“Death is just the beginning”
Maximilien Robespierre, 1794