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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