Human Parts
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Human Parts

THIS IS US

The Stunning Ordinariness of Death

I went to a funeral, and I couldn’t stop focusing on the mundane

Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash

My cousin Sam died on Thursday. On Sunday I flew to Virginia to attend his funeral, because Jews waste no time getting people into the ground. Someone asked me why we do it that way, and I had no idea.

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