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Smiling skeleton plate made by Consuelo Rendon Pena from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico

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Honestly it’s nice to read about people who were historically progressive like that poet or Jeremy Bentham

it really is. Nobody's perfect, but the fact that "well, they were a product of their time" isn't the universal excuse for historical bigotry that many conservatives want it to be is heartening, IMO

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Feeding the fires at Tzintzuntzan

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Walking into the [Tzintzuntzan] cemetery on the evening of November 1 was nothing short of revelatory. The cemetery glowed with the light of tens of thousands of candles, which the families plan and save all year to provide for their returning dead. A small boy worked diligently at his grandmother’s grave, relighting or replacing any of the hundreds of candles that had been snuffed out. The candles’ radiance mixed with the smell of marigolds and incense, creating a golden haze drifting among the graves.

It felt safe inside the walls of this cemetery, like being in the center of a glowing, beating heart.

— From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty