In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.