Bodies at Rest
After 18 Years Working in Death and Dying, Some Observations of Bodies and Remembrance
9 min readFeb 3, 2022
“The bodies of the newly dead are not debris nor remnant, nor are they entirely icon or essence. They are, rather, changelings, incubates, hatchlings of a new reality that bear our names and dates, our image and likenesses, as surely in the eyes and ears of our children and grandchildren as did…