
After dedicating years to the folkloric study of death rituals and legends, cryonics, anthropology da morte, being deprived of death both by exclusion and by default* I have been reacquainted with it in the clinical setting. What an experience.
*In case you haven't noticed, sans the Veteran's Memorial in the Presidio, there are no cemeteries in San Francisco. I won't say what my mind conjures about the implication of that absence, but when in need, one can always visit Colma, California -- the city which has "inherited [our] hundreds of thousands of bodies." The story goes that the San Francisco board of supervisors "evicted" all of its cemeteries in 1912; by 1937, all the bodies were removed, making us San Francisco the city of the living. The city without the dead. Weird.
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