By accepting the inevitability of mortality, society is able to refocus and contemplate humanity in a whole new light.

when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish Library of Alexandria has been burned to the ground. Except unlike the burning of such a library, when a website folds, the ensuing commentary from tech blogs asks only why the company folded, or why ... See more

Of course, even in our carefully crafted realities, death still exists, even if we can’t easily make space for honest discussions about it, even if we find it really hard to sit and listen to the dying. We shield ourselves from reflecting on mortality, loss, and fear because these topics constitute the collective shadow of our busy, consumer-driven

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