Found this great article about how the term six feet under came about. Shocker: it's related to the Great Plague. (Does everything even the least bit related to death has to come back to this plague?)
The short and short of it is this: to prevent the plague from coming back, six feet became the standard for burial. (Which begs the question: what were they doing before the plague in terms of how deeply people were buried?)
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