“Many Americans have never seen a corpse, and those who have probably encountered only the travesty of a beautiful death concocted in the mortician's beauty parlor. Nor is the prevailing present-day lifestyle in the United States and large parts of the Western world, set by egotistical, hyperactive people obsessed with amassing money and luxury goods, conducive to gloomy contemplation of death...”
--Jan Bondeson, Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear, 2001
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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