Large Death Events. What Does History Teach Us About Burial?

How Bodies Were Buried During History's Worst Epidemics
From the black death to the Spanish flu epidemic to last year's Ebola outbreak, what did people do with all those diseased corpses?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd5ebw/a-history-of-burial-rituals-during-the-worlds-worst-epidemics-324

There's a common belief that dead bodies pose a major risk of disease, which leads to a lot of hysteria during major epidemics. This is mostly a myth, studies have found. Even so, mass deaths during plagues have changed burial customs as people scrambled to prevent contamination or just find a place to put all the corpses. How do these pandemics alter the funeral practices in the affected areas during the outbreaks? ---CONTINUED---