The Power of Death
One of Mark Morford’s best columns I’ve read:
Should we celebrate the fact that there are some things that cannot be taken away from the human experience or viciously co-opted by marketing execs? Should we be glad, in an oddly morbid sort of way, that in the age of wild gobs of ultraviolence in popular culture, we can still be jarred to our core by actual death? You could say that.
You could say: We might be the most jaded and burned-out and fear-pummeled culture on the face of the planet, but at least we have real death. Sort of makes life worth living, no?