I suspect that a MAJOR essence of the 21st century recreational wilderness is as a death encounter, like Disneyland.
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Read somewhere that samurai ritual seppuku was more in theory than practice, since someone would be there to cut off your head in one stroke before you could feel the pain of self-disembowelment. I wonder if all ritual suicide cultures have such a gap between theory and practice.
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If sanyas was ever practiced in the theoretical form, I suspect the elderly probably only nominally lived in the forest but younger relatives probably checked up on them and came to comfort/palliate in actual deathbed time
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Isn’t the point *not* to be cared for? People take an exponentially climbing degree of resources to care for as they age. It’s very healthy for *the civilization* if everyone who has already fulfilled their roles of family and work to just go off into the woods after that.
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In theory, yes. In practice, no community I've encountered has a death culture based on that kind of theory. Even post death, funeral cultures are often designed to bankrupt families/send them into debt (South African Zulu culture is this way iirc)
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