did we become a new culture when we moved away from burial? this seems underdiscussed
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burial practices are often used to track and delineate large scale movements in human cultures. changes as large as ours seem unprecedented, startling
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just not talking about death in general, rather offering an immortalist, transhumanist vision of eternal, unchanging life
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It makes me wish we had a guild of undertakers like the Waiting Men that Nick Harkaway describes in Angelmaker Also sad that inventing your own rituals is so cringey because I want some very unmodern things done when I go back to the dirt
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Pull from the old traditions then!
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