But once they crossed the threshold, six men who worked for the Dickinson family carried her to the graveyard. Even the route to the cemetery was completely calculated. She's still there to this day, although at least one thing has changed since her carefully planned funeral. When Dickinson was buried in , it was under a simple stone bearing her initials, "E.
As she grew older, she saw people less and less but remained open to visits from close friends and family. Whether she suffered from a medical condition that made her uncomfortable around people or whether she chose to separate herself from society is not known.
A: Legend has it that later in her life Dickinson wore white all the time. When Thomas Higginson met her in , she was dressed in white; her one surviving dress is white; and she was buried in white. Although many theories exist about her assumed preference for white, Dickinson herself made no reference in any of her existing correspondence to wearing that color.
Emily Dickinson is buried in West Cemetery, located in the center of Amherst. The primary entrance to the Cemetery, which is owned by the town of Amherst, is on Triangle Street. Nor was it an unusual concern for a sensitive young woman who lived fifteen years of her youth next door to the town cemetery. Lord, and Helen Hunt Jackson — and several family members, including Gib and her mother. The effect of these strains, the symptoms of severe headache and nausea mentioned in her letters, and her deathbed coma punctuated by raspy and difficult breathing, have led researchers to conclude that she died of heart failure induced by severe hypertension high blood pressure.
Otis F. Bigelow, was handicapped in assisting his patient by her reclusiveness, for she would not admit him to her bedside to take a pulse.
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