Of Death and Tomatoes

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Essays from West of 98

We don’t contemplate death particularly well. I have written about this before (on this past Memorial Day). Polite society prefers to sanitize, obscure, and hide death from life, often refusing to accept that it exists. By doing so, we can avoid wrestling with the deep existential questions associated with death. If we reckon poorly with human death, we are even worse with...

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