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[SnowPink]

On 2/21/2015 bikerbabe said: I'm reading a book ""Western Attitudes Toward Death From the Middle Ages to the Present"".

That sounds interesting. Anything worthy of sharing yet?

[KittyLouSoutenu]

On 2/21/2015 AnikaBrodie said:

Kitty ... I think everyone who lives in the NE has cabin fever. Still snowing here.

I don't think I could live in the NE anymore (used to! - still have friends in NY and Boston) with so much snow and bad winter weather.

We just don't have this kind of stuff in the Bluegrass. We did have a horrible ice storm where we lost power for 8 days, but that was 10-11 years ago. I swore then that I'd move if it ever happened again!

[traveler]

Iron Dog snowmachine ceremonial start is today and it's raining in Anchorage, Alaska.

[bikerbabe]

On 2/21/2015 SnowPink said:

On 2/21/2015 bikerbabe said: I'm reading a book "Western Attitudes Toward Death From the Middle Ages to the Present".

That sounds interesting. Anything worthy of sharing yet?

Just started reading it for a class I have this semester on death. Right now it's talking about how death was much more open, accepted and ritualized in the Middle Ages. In the early middle ages the living, the sick, the dying, the dead were in such close proximity to each other that every day life included the overlapping smell of the dead with the living. It was the norm.