In 1937, granite artist Luigi "Louis" Giovanni Brusa died of silicosis, a lung disease caused by inhaling miniscule particles of the rocks he carved. The moment of his death is captured in "The Dying Man," an extraordinary monument that he commissioned a talented peer, Donato "Don" Coletti, to create. Atlas Obscura tells the tragic tale of Vermont's Italian gravestone carvers and the sculpture that serves as a warning and memorial to them.

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