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The Cruelest

The problem with dying folks is they don’t die immediately. They retreat, diminish, deactivate, reanimate as living dead. Once entombed, they come back, lurching parodies of human self possession. They are not in control of themselves, their muscles and being propelled as pure motorized instinct. They are different, alien, other, at once of like mind and behavior. They are aggregate and unindividuated. end of article