Sublime

A.J. Jacobs’s Esquire piece titled “I Think You’re Fat.”

Jusque dans les années 1970, la mort était un thème tabou, et les ouvrages sur la mort ne rencontraient qu’une vente très limitée. La mort a été expulsée des domiciles : il y a cinquante ans, 80 % des décès survenaient à domicile ; en 2007, 80 % des décès ont eu lieu à l’hôpital.

embalming were something a tradesman like Bruce would never perform on his own mother, I wondered why we were performing it on anyone at all.

Death should be known. Known as a difficult mental, physical, and emotional process, respected and feared for what it is.

Dr. Troyer, whose PhD dissertation was titled “Technologies of the Human Corpse,” is studying crematoriums that capture the excess heat from the cremation process and put it to use elsewhere—heating other buildings, or even, as one crematory in Worcestershire did, a local swimming pool, saving taxpayers £14,500 a year. It is a way to make the crema

Eventually the morgue exhibitions became too popular with the citizens of Paris, and they were shut down to the public.