Yeah, yeah, yeah everything's subjective. Except if you casually dismiss some of civilization's near constants (i.e. respect for human remains) and replace that with some philosophical cogitating from a college textbook, little by little the framework of a society changes. (yeah, plasticization does sound like same sex marriage...
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When in doubt, I think a modicum of reverence is probably more, rather than less, desirable. The human casing that once housed a familiar essence does not immediately lose its lifetime of associations just because the spirit has left the premises.
Oh well, I always say there's a reason people don't live longer than a century or so. The amount of change in that span of time is just about all a body can absorb. The hyperspeed of this century's change has my head reeling and I've still got a few decades to go. I expect much of the terrain to be unrecognizable going forward on this bullet train of life.
Susan
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
Ben Franklin
