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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Burial
Shroud
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Necessarily
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Fascinated
Mortality
Admit
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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Oblivious
Ignore
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Accepting
Mortality
Vegetables
Good Your May
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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Adapting
Intimidating
Memoir
Personal Experience
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Scary
Choosing
Escape
Ignore
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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Funeral
Shocking
Industrial
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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Atoms
Biologically
Out Here
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Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
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Fascination
Assume
Cultural
Encountered
No Wonder
Zombies
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Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want.
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Online
Your Internet People
Affairs
Bank
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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Death
Childhood
Curiosity
Fate
Fighting
Humans
Mind
Morbid
Sheer
Supremacy
Terror
Ultimate
Since
Had
Ever
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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Causes
Natural State
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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America
Body
Burial
Denial
Layers
Over It
Casket
Ground
Over
Settle
Vault
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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Morbid
Preoccupation
Definition
Unfortunately
Perfectly
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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Caring
Funeral
Grieving
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I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.
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Attempting
California
Compassion
Dignity
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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Life Future Your
Affects
Believing
Problematic
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Chemotherapy
Treatment
Pacemaker
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Ritual
Take Care
Western
Western World
Processes
Surrounding
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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Happiness
Ashes
Body
Funeral
Grief
Happens
Mail
Problem
Remembrance
States
United States
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Call
Exist
Often
Pick
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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Dying
Reserved
Sanitary
Family Home People
Concept
Friends And Family
Hospital
Relatively
Surrounded
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Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
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Burial
Celebrate
Decay
Fragmentation
Helpless
Loss
Mass
Naturally
Doubles
La
Organic
Perish
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Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
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Bonus
Bronze
Dirt
Faux
Marble
Settling
Added
Cemeteries
Effective
Prevent
Sold
Thus
Uniform
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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Bears
Creatures
Customs
Desert
Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Elephants
Harsh
Helping
Majestic
Outfits
Bodies
Current
Tower
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