“Alas,poor Yorick!” cc-by-nc: some rights reserved - plow plane
animals don’t die with a lot of dignity, usually. but then, it takes a whole industry to try to impose dignity on human deaths in the western world. funeral rights in the pre-modern era were pretty expensive and at least time consuming as well. it takes a lot of effort to impose dignity on death.
-discovered in the photophlow welcome room
