Sublime

The human mind can only conceive of so much tragedy at once—and when lost lives spiral into the hundreds, then thousands, and then millions, when murder becomes a wide, seemingly unending mass, we lose our ability to see its victims as anything more than an abstract, almost theoretical, collection of lives.

The victims on these shows are played by young models and actors who are making their rounds on the CSI and Law & Order corpse circuit while waiting to get called for a pilot. They are a far cry from the majority of bodies in a funeral home—old, knotted, and wracked with years of diseases like cancer and cirrhosis of the liver.

“I think you like to think that you’re slumming by necessity, not by choice,” said Emma, now serious. “I think you secretly enjoy the perverse. The abject depravity. The exposure to the worst elements of human nature. And I think you do it because it allows you to accept those elements in yourself.” McAnnis was silent a moment. Then, quietly, he sa

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

The Cotard Delusion is a very rare form of schizophrenia. It is also called the Corpse Syndrome. A person with this condition would feel as if he were a living corpse, that he was rotting inside, that he was actually dead and hence eternal. It is a strange philosophical state, but also an extreme case of depression, and the only reason the corpse d