i've always been completely creeped out by anything having to do with death or dead people. shoot, i have a hard time watching movies with skulls and bones (realistic ones anyway). i've only ever been to one funeral and it was for someone i had never met. i nearly vomited at the viewing. i can only imagine how bad it would be if i knew the person. i watched the others in the theater and cringed when the dead people photos were on screen. i can't even eat dead animal if i can tell what part of the animal it used to be, and giblets - forget it! so maybe the macabre isn't my forte for discussion. the occult, well, i know lots of people think i'm part of a cult since i'm officially mormon, but i'm thinking more the halloween-ey kind of occult... i know that the first jack-o-lanterns were people heads on spikes and they evolved to being scooped-out turnips before pumpkins became well-known. beyond that - i'm sorry guys: i read a horoscope once in a while, but that's about as occult as i get. consider me "interested but grossed out and kinda lazy" in that department.
To add to the hair jewelry discussion - a history museum out here in california had a stiched wall sampler made of hair. the tour guide told me that girls (in the 1800s) used to collect their own hair to stitch with. that struck me as something i would do because i'm too cheap to buy thread.
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The last paragraph brings up another question about the hair jewellery: did the people want to be literally objectified after death? Would any of us?
That leads into the question of what we want done with our bodies after we die.
i read an article about "green" burials - bodies are wrapped in linen, some inside pine coffins, some just the linen. no embalming is done; the graves are dug by hand... i kind of like that idea. it's like vegan death.
I'd like to leave my skull to my children as an heirloom (with all the meat removed, of course). Since there's not much point in buying a casket for a headless body, I imagine I will want the leftovers cremated. It might be fun to send the rest of the family on some kind of ash scattering scavenger hunt with prizes. Or maybe that's insensitive.
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