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In reply to the discussion: Why, when someone dies, are they spoken of as a "body" or "corpse"? [View all]Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)And I've been there, so it isn't hypothetical for me.
I didn't mean to make this a philosophical discussion about the soul and the duality of being.
My intent was that it strikes me as utterly disrespectful to one minute call that piece of flesh by name, and then the next, to call it a corpse. Even if the lifeforce has left it.
I also think this dissociation we do makes dead bodies so creepy to us. I don't mean a decomposing body, but a recently dead person, it's like we are suddenly afraid of that which we used to hug and enjoy being with. Now they are something to be feared and avoided, to be covered up and taken away with haste.
I'm not saying I like being around dead bodies LOL... gosh I hope that isn't how this is sounding. I'm just wondering aloud why it is this way for us, and whether it is healthy or what. That's all.
It all started when I read a book called "The Undead", where the author discusses at length the whole field of organ donation, and so-called "beating-heart cadavers", and the fine line between life and death and how that line is drawn.