Right now, millions of people are celebrating Día de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead.

The vast majority of those are Hispanic people and most of those are celebrating in Mexico, where almost 80 percent of the population honors the holiday’s traditions, according to several sources.

Celebrations are becoming more common in the United States, however, as the Hispanic population and its cultural influences grow.

Although the Day of the Dead might never get near the prominence of more traditional U.S. holidays, its focus is interesting and might fill a need, a lack, in our modern culture.

People tend to shed things as societies evolve toward the more modern, technological and urban.

Among those things are connections that once were organic; connection to the land, nature, the seasons, t

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