Meghan Daum
Basically Dead
A Gen Xer contemplates mortality, burial, and decay
Published in
9 min readJan 24, 2019
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I think a lot about being dead. Not necessarily dying (I try not to think about that) or death — but deadness, specifically my own eventual state thereof. I think about lying underground and decaying into the earth, my flesh feasted upon by parasites and spores, my bones eroding into the soil, my organs…