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| 81dd58f | When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. | death funeral-rites holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| 53da7f3 | Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions. | death religion religion-meaning funeral-rites funerals misunderstanding | Gabriel García Márquez |