Pamela Post Documentary 'Buried So Deep'

Often times our society overlooks some aspects which is what a society really consist of, with the aid of various concepts, it will become apparent as to how a society and its culture have changed through the years. Seeing as culture is neither static, nor fixed, it is easy to see how through time culture can shape and grow through the discovery of new objectives and values, as well as the diffusion of these values and invention of new concepts.
One aspect Canadian culture agrees with is the separation of the church and state. In Pamela Post’s documentary “Buried So Deep” individuals talk about their experiences with child loss and how it was dealt within the hospital system. Since these still births or fetal losses happened in the 1970s, there was quite a different manner as to how the situation was handled. Priest and doctor combined would often decide the funeral arrangements. This
This is not to say that during the 1960s and 1970s people depreciated the value of life, but rather they did not understand the complexity of a human, no matter how small. The documentary discussed how there was a large common wealth grave made after the second world war to allow the resting place of many Jewish, Mason, Chinese who died from the flu pandemic. Not forgetting to mention the topic of discussion, the 11 000 unmarked graves of children who either dies intrauterine or shortly after birth. Most medical practitioners and parents did not know how to deal with the traumatic occurrences of these lost children, so they decided to forget that it had ever happened. The doctors would take down the name and date of the lost babies and then would send them to the morgue. They would tell the families to “get over” the loss of these children and to go on a vacation or try for another child, not leaving much room for mourning or