Ah… thanks Alex and Jim for requesting the needed clarification.
Jim’s post from this morning, I think, gets to the root of what I was
attempting to say…
I intended, without success, for "Celebrating death" as a sarcastic
reflection of how we avoid death-fear/annihilation-fear by tilting our
avoidances toward macabre, irrational, man-made notions of celebration to
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