Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
by Paul Comstock
June 5th, 2007
“Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as a de facto landfill of hazardous wastes and non-biodegradable materials.”
Archive for the ‘Death’ Category
Denial of Death - by Ernest Becker
by Paul Blairon
April 11th, 2007
According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The same creature that names himself, imagines, explores and speculates is in the end, food for insects.
An Interview With Author Mary Roach
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
“Helen Duncan is my favorite. Huge, chain-smoking woman who used to swoon and occasionally pee herself in the frenzy of spirit possession. Helen had the scientists stumped. She’d produce ectoplasm … even though the researchers had frisked her and done a cavity search prior to her entering the séance chamber. Turned out she was a talented regurgitator.”
