Tag: coffin

Cápsula del Tiempo (Time Capsule)

19 May 2020
death, mortality, the deadfunerals, cemeteriesthings, objectstime, historyvideo & audio
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Earlier I wrote a post about coffins: Before the pandemic arrived, I had begun building a coffin with my friend Ted not because I’m dying but because, as my daughter put it, Dad’s not afraid of dying. Truthfully, Dad is a bit afraid, but he displays his fear by defying death. Dad is self-inoculating, staving…

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Ritualizing in a Pandemic World: Masking

15 March 2020
death, mortality, the deaddiseasemusings
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On this day, March 11, in the year of 1988, my daughter was born 2011, a tsunami hit Japan disrupting Fukushima Daiichi 2020, Covid-19 was declared a pandemic On other days, in other years, people survived and thrived, died and were memorialized. From 1347-1352, the Black Death (bubonic plague), killed 25 million people, 1/3 of…

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