utopians:

utopians:

embalming as standard practice… ‘protective caskets’… waterproof burial vaults… folks there is no fucking point

utopians:

that uniquely american cultural drive to preserve the corpse after death…. utterly horrid I tell you

not to go all Anti Capitalist here but like. making people feel like they’ve ‘failed’ their dead loved ones if they don’t put their chemically preserved corpses in a multi-thousand dollar hermetically sealed vault is absolutely fucking ghoulish the whole industry is built around taking advantage of grieving families. like it’s such a morbid topic but for real normalize decay… normalize the idea that a corpse, while an incredibly important thing, is temporary and isn’t meant to exist forever… normalize the transience of the body… also fuck every person who’s ever tried to wring money out of a grieving person by convincing them to by a fucking. waterproof burial vault. man

where does cremation fall into this? i personally am a fan of cremation because theres a lot of things you can do with ones ashes like put it into an hourglass or spread over a place that was meaningful to the deceased.