Meghan Daum

Basically Dead

A Gen Xer contemplates mortality, burial, and decay

Photo by Leonardo Yip on Unsplash

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…