Who comes up with this nonsense? Death as a hermetically sealed experience is the opposite of most of human history https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1312614389648896001">https://twitter.com/washingto...
Humans used to bury their relatives under the floors of their own houses, dig them up a couple of years later, and make smily clay masks with shell eyes for the corpses. I mean
Krapina: death rituals predate humans. Qafzeh: they predate all of our signature technologies. Fuck SAKE
We evolved with our mortality as a central experience of who we are as humans. It& #39;s now that we ignore it, put a spray tan and hair dye on septuagenarians and call that & #39;the prime of life,& #39; that& #39;s the aberration. That& #39;s the thing we didn& #39;t evolve to handle.
I have a literal doctorate in thinking about death a lot, and trust me, humans in general have thought about death a lot. A LOT lot.
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