Oct 30, 2004

I Want the Bugs to Eat Me

I drove by a graveyard on my way out of Boston today, and it started me thinking about human burial rituals, and what they meant to me. I’ve always said that I want my body donated to science after I die, but I would consider other options.

I really like the idea that after we die, our energy and body matter are recycled and become part of nature. If I was going to be buried, I would want my body to decompose and become one with the soil, not rot in isolation in a sealed casket. The idea is almost perverse. It seems selfish, like holding yourself back from the universe, clinging to the idea that you are far above the rest of the matter in existance. I would feel so lonely if I was buried in a fancy casket lined with silk and designed to keep out everything except the same dead air I was buried in. I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want to be buried right in the ground, to become a part of life again.

This is a strange thing to write about on my eighteenth birthday.

Posted at 11:46 PM in Personal

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5 Comments

K D at 10:39 PM on 11/1/04

I concur.

Yo Cuz at 10:25 AM on 11/3/04

Dude, can you define your hr’s? It’s really bothering me. Unless you wanted them to be that greeny-tan puke color… Just, y’know, in the CSS, go hr { } et cetera. If you plan on doing it, talk to me about it because there’s like 3-4 things you have to define to make it work in Mozilla but I can’t remember them off the top of my head *at school*.

And since I’m at school, I feel that I will tell you that your site looks fine on older computers :D sometimes the Vent comes up this weird shade of purple on some of the computers here *disgusted*. Freaking update your internet kids, kthxbye.

Loden at 12:07 AM on 11/4/04

I’ll think about it. The thing is, if the monitor displays them properly, they’re more like 3D indentations and that grey-green part is the shadow. It does look a bit gross on the computers at school, but I like how it looks from here.

Thanks for the head-up about older computers, though. That’s hard to test.

K at 11:47 AM on 11/5/04

>P It is icky. I’ll have to look at it on Mozilla or something.

Loden at 4:24 PM on 11/5/04

I think it looks more silvery-grey than pukey green.

The problem is that if I defined it, I would want it to look pretty much exactly like it does.