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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

—Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

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“…no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

— Terry Pratchett (via notebookofquotes)

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Margaret Atwood, from “Owl Song”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

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Buchanan Cemetery, Moscow ID

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Traditions must adapt to social distance rules at a time when for some, physical and spiritual closeness is most needed.

“ Usually, hundreds if not thousands attend the funeral of a prominent Muslim figure. But on Tuesday, only 20 members of Nahdi’s family said final goodbyes in person.

The internet, however, offered some solace to others.

From Kenya to Malaysia, thousands watched Nahdi’s funeral as it was streamed live on Facebook.

UK begins coronavirus lockdown

“There is no God but God,” the pallbearers said in Arabic as they carried Nahdi’s coffin, draped with a green velvet cloth bearing a bouquet of tulips.

Nahdi’s family and the funeral directors wore masks in an attempt to protect themselves and others from the pandemic that has so far killed almost 800 people in the United Kingdom.

“It’s really difficult to wear a mask when arranging funerals and dealing with family members,” said Hasina Zaman, the cofounder of Compassionate Funerals, who prepared the burial.

“We’ve come to this point where we’re so separated by our grief through death,” Zaman said. “We can’t show compassion in the way we handle the deceased or relate to the family." “

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Child with Skull / Memento Mori (detail) by Simon van de Passe, 1612.

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would create such complex and fancy worm food?”

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Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (via exhaled-spirals)

#i would create complex and fancy worm food #gotta have the best for my worms (via lagrotte)

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October, Mary Oliver

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People die. All the time. From many causes, including old age, disease, accidents, murder. But researchers can learn from these deaths.

Dr. Heather Edgar, forensic anthropologist at the University of New Mexico Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) and associate professor of anthropology, is currently converting a dataset of whole body decedent CT scans into a searchable database that will be available to researchers.

The database will be stored on systems at the UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing, with the help of CARC network and storage specialist Hussein Al-Azzawi. It is being funded by a $702,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice.

“CARC staff helped to develop a safe, secure, long lasting storage solution. Also, they are helping to develop the method by which we will deliver the scans to the researchers,” Edgar said.

Right now, the database is under construction, Edgar said, and the importance of it can’t be over-emphasized. The database will be available by the end of 2019. It will be free to use.

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Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod.Don.A III 54, f. 89v. Wilhelm Werner von Zimmern, Vergänglichkeitsbuch. c.1540/1550.

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Buddhist monk is elaborately mummified and covered in gold

An honor reserved for holy men in some regions with strong Buddhist traditions, the mummification and gold-leaf coating of the deceased is a fascinating, visually stunning practice. The mummification of Chinese monk, Fu Hou, who died in 2012, was completed on Thursday. Here’s how the process works.

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