Just as a ewe needs no praise or congrats for giving birth to lambs, a dead sheep needs no funeral rights.
In case you hadn't heard, I've been thinking about death & the ceremonies humans erect around their ideas of human life, mortality and their desire o ignore and even deny death in the blatant face of death. If human bodies weren't embalmed (AKA: pumped full of preservatives) or entombed (crammed in a coffin & buried six feet under) they would decompose rapidly wherever they fell and never moved again. I'm sure you know all this.
Due respect? If humans thought about how living things treat the dead (birds pecking out the eyes of corpses, carnivores gnawing off genitals and tearing out interal organs... not to mention the little things the grubs and maggots do...), they would find their idea of respect is a fallacy. All journeys come to an end. No end is ever what humans want it to be- they typically would rather it go on forever.... and that's the end of this.
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I'm talking about endings. *plays Mirror Force Trap Card*
Date: 2009-01-27 02:19 pm (UTC)In case you hadn't heard, I've been thinking about death & the ceremonies humans erect around their ideas of human life, mortality and their desire o ignore and even deny death in the blatant face of death. If human bodies weren't embalmed (AKA: pumped full of preservatives) or entombed (crammed in a coffin & buried six feet under) they would decompose rapidly wherever they fell and never moved again. I'm sure you know all this.
Due respect? If humans thought about how living things treat the dead (birds pecking out the eyes of corpses, carnivores gnawing off genitals and tearing out interal organs... not to mention the little things the grubs and maggots do...), they would find their idea of respect is a fallacy. All journeys come to an end. No end is ever what humans want it to be- they typically would rather it go on forever.... and that's the end of this.