Comments on: Hey, little deathlings: it gets better

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:44:00 +0000

Take the mystery and fear away? Why would anybody want that?

By: teleny

teleny — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Aldous Huxley observed, and I would believe rightly so, that teenagers generally are fascinated by death (something hormonal, I suppose). He also said that it would be a great thing if they could have a “simulated death”, just to take the mystery and fear away (he suggested LSD, but I’m sure someone could come up with something better). At 13 myself when I read this, I couldn’t help but concur. I figured that people would get more enlightened about such things, back in 1970.

Now, we’re so freaked out by death, we can’t even say the word “died”. We can’t say “funeral”, and we love cremations, if only because we can scatter ashes and not have to have icky gravesites. At the same time, we love playing with mourning (think of Tim Burton films, or of Hot Topic). We love bands with names like “Cannibal Corpse” and do we ever love zombies.

strange.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:05:00 +0000

Morbid kids? Shouldn’t it be “It gets bitter”? ;)

(Bitterer?)

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:50:00 +0000

By: MortuaryReport

MortuaryReport — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:08:00 +0000

i love what i do, so she’s completely right!

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Guess its time for a mummification renaissance

By: Bradley Hall

Bradley Hall — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:01:00 +0000

If only someone told me that “it gets better” and the real reason why people think death careers are “icky” I could have gone to school to be a mortician instead of being a leader in a world wide movement.

By: Bradley Hall

Bradley Hall — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:59:00 +0000

And that will make the little deathlings extremely happy.

By: dr_awkward

dr_awkward — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Birth has a 100% fatality rate.

By: GuyInMilwaukee

GuyInMilwaukee — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Anytime I think of death this lovely piece of art comes to mind.
http://www.astrofunk.com/grave/G.PepeGrave01.jpg

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Do enjoy: http://www.pushindaisies.com/candypress/scripts/default.asp

By: saint_al

saint_al — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:49:00 +0000

“There’s a little death in everybody.” Possibly the best & most practical college course I took was “Death and Dying’, a Sociology elective. Ever speak to someone who literally pulled the plug on a life support machine? or a Sheriff who’d found many bodies in the field? (He had a previous military career- Vietnam era- informing families of KIA situations involving their sons). Always walked away from that room with plenty to consider.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:35:00 +0000

Of course it gets better. No matter who you are, every new day brings you that much closer to death.

By: RoeBoeDog

RoeBoeDog — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:28:00 +0000

I have worked behind the scenes for a mortuary and the thing you have to remember that you are helping the family through a very difficult time. For some you become family friends and people come back to you for they way you handled their uncles funeral so long ago. It is about the dead, but mostly about the people left living that you are there for.

By: Judas Peckerwood

Judas Peckerwood — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:21:00 +0000

My cousin faced incredulity and fierce opposition from our extended family when she announced that she was abandoning a blossoming modeling career to become a mortician. She stuck to her guns, and today she’s happy and successful.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Harold (and Maude) approved.

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:13:00 +0000

That’s nice. People should enjoy their work.