I just picked up the February 2009 issue of the National Geographic magazine. "What Darwin Didn't Know". 'Oh this should be interesting,' I thought, 'especially since I am currently reading the Origin of Species.' However, when I picked up the magazine, I didn't grab all the pages, and it fell open to a photo near the back, of a mummy propped against a wall.
"What the hell is this?"
I was mesmerized. The photos, the concept, completely drew me in. Why, exactly, I don't know. It is more than macabre, for it truly is death.
While I didn't absolutely care for the tone of entire article, at least it is putting death out there. For the living to see.
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When I was younger I used to be obsessed with death, my grama died when I was a kid. I used to do lots of projects on it in school. One of the most interesting things to me was adipocre. There was this picture of a little girl who died over a hundred years ago, and her body was perfectly preserved and it looked as though she was simply asleep. She looked so serene..
adipocere* I mispelled it.
I imagine most will turn away, you know, see no evil...blah, blah, blah
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