Blueberry Panic
The Bitch who can't die
- Jan 5, 2025
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Humans have been told their whole lives that death is something to fear, something dark, something to fight against. But think about it for a second... death itself isn't evil. It's not punishment, it's not a curse. It's the one truth every living thing has to face, the quiet that comes after life. What we actually fear isn't death itself ...it's losing control, its the unknown, the idea that we, or the people we love, will just… stop existing. That's terrifying for a species obsessed with permanence, obsessed with clinging onto needless things and moments.
Here's the thing no one really ever talks about: humans don't just fear death... we fucking monetized it. We turned it into an industry, a corporation, a set of rules controlling every last breath of what happens after a loved one dies. Burial plots, caskets, embalming, cremation services, urns, mausoleums a entire business built to make death look scary, complicated, and expensive. Step outside the system? Handle it naturally? Try to do it the way you want? In almost all places, it's illegal. Society criminalizes authentic ways of dealing with death because the corporations built around it want the control, the money, and the rituals.
Its shitty how corporations will rule our lives, and even once we are gone, they will rule over our deaths... it's sadly how our soviety has been molded to work.
When someone dies, grieving isn't just grief anymore ... it's a script. Buy a casket, hire a funeral director, pay for embalming, pay for the plot, or you could save a lot and just pay for cremation. Laws regulate how you can dispose of a body, how long you have to wait, which chemicals can be used, which places can host it. Death, a universal, natural part of life, has been reshaped into something that requires permission and money to experience "properly." If we don't follow these rules, we're doing something wrong. Death itself has been labeled as bad, dirty, and taboo.
It's not just about money ... it's about control. Corporations, governments, religions, most of society: all of them have colluded to take this most personal, natural event and turn it into a system that benefits them. Mourning isn't just emotional anymore; it's transactional. Respecting a loved one's death isn't about care; it's about compliance. People die, and their bodies become property of the system until you can "release" them according to rules.
The fear of death you see everywhere? Manufactured. Reinforced by laws, rituals, and industries that profit off it. Death itself is neutral. Inevitable. Not a punishment. The natural order. We've just been tricked into hating it.
Speaking of ,the death penalty is society weaponizing the one thing most people fear ....death itself as punishment. And yet, most of the people who end up on death row are already broken by life, numb to survival, living in a kind of death-in-life long before the law steps in.It's bureaucratic cruelty masquerading as justice, turning a natural inevitability into a tool of control, fear, and suffering.
It's sick how much we've been conditioned to thinking death is such a bad thing when it really isnt.
Crazy thing about most funeral practices is that they charge most for embalming not just the burial.
When modern embalming as a widespread practice didn't even start in the until the United States Civil War. Before that, most bodies were buried quickly without preservation. Displaying the body of a loved one by injecting chemicals and other needless things in them.
The truth is, bodies aren't "dirty" in any moral or spiritual sense ...they're just organic matter doing what all matter does: decay. The idea that a corpse is "unclean" is cultural, invented to control how people deal with death and to justify the funeral industry's rules.
Look at death without the horror story society tells. The dead were never ours to own. Death itself isn't something to fear. It's neutral, inevitable, and the only truth in life.
Here's the thing no one really ever talks about: humans don't just fear death... we fucking monetized it. We turned it into an industry, a corporation, a set of rules controlling every last breath of what happens after a loved one dies. Burial plots, caskets, embalming, cremation services, urns, mausoleums a entire business built to make death look scary, complicated, and expensive. Step outside the system? Handle it naturally? Try to do it the way you want? In almost all places, it's illegal. Society criminalizes authentic ways of dealing with death because the corporations built around it want the control, the money, and the rituals.
Its shitty how corporations will rule our lives, and even once we are gone, they will rule over our deaths... it's sadly how our soviety has been molded to work.
When someone dies, grieving isn't just grief anymore ... it's a script. Buy a casket, hire a funeral director, pay for embalming, pay for the plot, or you could save a lot and just pay for cremation. Laws regulate how you can dispose of a body, how long you have to wait, which chemicals can be used, which places can host it. Death, a universal, natural part of life, has been reshaped into something that requires permission and money to experience "properly." If we don't follow these rules, we're doing something wrong. Death itself has been labeled as bad, dirty, and taboo.
It's not just about money ... it's about control. Corporations, governments, religions, most of society: all of them have colluded to take this most personal, natural event and turn it into a system that benefits them. Mourning isn't just emotional anymore; it's transactional. Respecting a loved one's death isn't about care; it's about compliance. People die, and their bodies become property of the system until you can "release" them according to rules.
The fear of death you see everywhere? Manufactured. Reinforced by laws, rituals, and industries that profit off it. Death itself is neutral. Inevitable. Not a punishment. The natural order. We've just been tricked into hating it.
Speaking of ,the death penalty is society weaponizing the one thing most people fear ....death itself as punishment. And yet, most of the people who end up on death row are already broken by life, numb to survival, living in a kind of death-in-life long before the law steps in.It's bureaucratic cruelty masquerading as justice, turning a natural inevitability into a tool of control, fear, and suffering.
It's sick how much we've been conditioned to thinking death is such a bad thing when it really isnt.
Crazy thing about most funeral practices is that they charge most for embalming not just the burial.
When modern embalming as a widespread practice didn't even start in the until the United States Civil War. Before that, most bodies were buried quickly without preservation. Displaying the body of a loved one by injecting chemicals and other needless things in them.
The truth is, bodies aren't "dirty" in any moral or spiritual sense ...they're just organic matter doing what all matter does: decay. The idea that a corpse is "unclean" is cultural, invented to control how people deal with death and to justify the funeral industry's rules.
Look at death without the horror story society tells. The dead were never ours to own. Death itself isn't something to fear. It's neutral, inevitable, and the only truth in life.
