Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader remembers once talking to the Smallholder about death and burial. While the details of that discussion are unimportant, one part of the converstation that was interesting to remember was the lack of outside agents in the process of death, dying, and burial. Your Maximum Leader has been invovled in the burial of a number of family members. And in all instances an outside funeral agent was used to prepare the body and provide a setting for some sort of visitation.

Now there is a movement afoot to bring death back into homes, as was the custom before the late 20th Century. A Movement to Bring Grief Back Home

If you haven’t ever read about the changing attitudes and cultural norms associated with death and dying you really ought to go and find a copy of Philippe Aries “The Hour of Our Death.” It is a remarkable good read. (From the perspective of a historian perhaps… If you are looking for light summer reading, this isn’t it.)

Carry on.