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Do You Cover a Dead Body Early?
We tend to use what i think anthropologists call e the functional fallacy. We say, oh, yes, you cover a body early, because otherwise it corrupts. That's the reason behind cosha food, it spoils in the heat. But that really, as a westerner, with our culture and our post romantic codes of sympathy we're looking for those tiny moments in homer which we pick out. It seems that all the sympathy is displaced into religious,. you knowe qisand and funeral er rites and ointments and anguents and so on. For mea soft liberal in the widest sense of the word, westerner, my values come from keats and