I've been watching the television show "Bones" lately and it's occurred to me that seemingly every corpse they find has its mouth wide open. It's like the skull forced out one final, silent scream. I'm sure that this is caused by the muscles bracing the jaw bone rotting away and leaving the jaw to sway in the wind, but... eww. It just seems so undignified.
If I'm buried after my death and someone digs me up centuries later, my jaw is going to be hanging to my sternum. Does that bother anyone else?
K.
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Um...
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Never thought about it, but now that you've mentioned it, I don't think I'll be able to get the image out of my, er, skull.
irina: Yeah, not exactly a pleasant subject to think about. The more I ponder it, the more I realize that if I am in fact buried, I head would probably be tipped backwards, so I my jaw wouldn't fall open. Maybe. I don't know. Perhaps I should specify that in my will.
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gross.
ReplyDeleteI just want to sink into the earth and be done with it.
Skeletons scare me. I don't want to be one!!
just me: I agree. Or cremate me and spread me over the ocean. Then I wouldn't have to think about it at all.
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