Assertion: coffin | /r/CapableOf | distance the living
Facets:
value: from the unpleasantness of death
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: It was the violence combined with the scale of death that led to the ‘the beautification of death’ in America during this period, and it was the shift in both name and shape of the coffin that was an effort to distance the living from the unpleasantness of death, and the hexagonal coffins were part of that distancing.