Quote by Robert B. Parker

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

— Heraclitus

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Why do we bury our dead?” His nose was dented in at the bridge like a sphinx; the cause of which I could only…

— Yvonne Woon

“Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing’s left but posers ogling each other over the bleached…

— Cody Goodfellow

“And corpses should always be removed from a home feetfirst. Always.”

— Mary Kubica

“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally potent and…

— Thomas Lynch

“Shall I check into convenient spots to bury a body?' 'You never know when a nice soft piece of ground may be useful.”

— Claudia J. Edwards

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Dead people look very, very dead. It is difficult to grasp what that means, since it’s unlikely that any of us will stumble across…

— Caitlin Doughty

“We carry the dead in our hands as we might carry water - with a careful, reverential tread. There is no other way. How…

— John Glenday

“It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead...”

— Sharon Sant