pygmy

it's so disturbing to me how impersonal death is in this country, & any other "civilized" country for that matter-- that if you don't pay strangers to take care of your loved ones' "remains" (hate that word), if you have a funeral barge down the river like people have been doing for thousands of years or bury your uncle or whoever under the apple tree they planted instead of the graveyard near yet more strangers, with a gravestone that some machine carved in a hole some other stranger got paid minimum wage to dig (and, I might add, pumped full of formaldehyde and painted to seem more "lifelike"), you're very likely to get sent to jail.

the commodification of death.

great


meanwhile, anthropologists' first clues that early man developed consciousness was evidence that they cared for their dead instead of just leaving them to the vultures.