Friday, June 8, 2018

Grotesque Curiosity


Why is it that when someone dies, we want to know how the deceased bought the farm?
The details of death fascinate us. Have we seen to many NCIS shows? Do we need to berate the bereaved about the pain and suffering of the corpse?
There seems that there are many methods to the grim reaper and we will all meet our maker in one form or another, but knowing our friend or acquaintance struggled in agony or met a fearful fate put a period on their history or just a morbid fascination we don’t need to know?
Do we need to gossip about the passed with speculations on who, what and why? Is our foible fantasy better than realizing what life is all about?
Every day the obits will list the dead with an address or member of a church or club and those in the family who left before and those who remand. That is about it.
If you personally knew the person you will probably already have an idea of demise. If not, why should you care?
It is up to family or friends or community to depose of the carcass while everyone else can speculate on an unknown history like some mystery novel not written.
Do we have the same grotesque curiosity about the animal who died to feed us? Do we talk of the unborn child?

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