When Hart Island Became Scandalous

[jpegghost]

 I chauffeured a dead lady to the local airport this morning, tired but enjoying the dense fog hanging over our skyscrapers. The road that loops you around the airport was barren and I was the only car, something that is very out of character for this city. I kept thinking that maybe the road was closed, but nope.

My fire-ant bites blistered up, which I think is pretty cool and gross but most other people are abjectly horrified.

I have another funeral tomorrow, then a day off then I'm back into it. Assuming we don't have more dead people, which we may... NY is doing mass graves in Potter's Fields on Hart Island, which is something I saw on the news as Scandalous! and Shocking! but New York, amongst every other state, has been doing that for unclaimed bodies for years. It's not newsworthy, it's an unfortunate thing that happens when people fall through the cracks. I'm normally against fear tactics but if it will keep people indoors, then by all means scare the shit out of the people who think we need to reopen the blood cult economy.

Until then; I'm making sweet tea (listen its 88 in Texas rn) and shoving my face into The Embalming Tomes. Oooh, necrosis!
 

Comments

[amejisuto]

Hope your legs get better, that sounds painful.

[alee_grrl]

Fire ant bites are so miserable. But they do look kind of cool (though gross) when they blister up.

And yeah, while I'm normally against scare tactics, I'm all for anything that might get through to the idiots protesting stay-at-home orders.

Enjoy your sweet tea!

[jpegghost]

Honestly? It's mostly ITCHY. They don't produce any pain other than being a pain to deal with. Not a fan of the blisters.

[jpegghost]

With the protestors I just wish the virus worked suddenly, so people doing stupid shit like that are immediately affected instead of spreading the disease to others. It's frustrating and setting us back many steps.

[dark_phoenix54]

Your blasé reaction to the fire ants has my total respect.. when I got bitten by ONE I wanted to cut my damn leg off it itched, burned, and swelled up so bad. And lasted forever.

I assume your dead lady was reclining in a container? One of my husband's cousins- true story- when her mother died at home, she washed and dressed her, put her in passenger seat of the car, put a baseball cap on her head, pulled down low over her face, and drove from Colorado to Oregon with her there. You see, her father was buried in Oregon, and her mother insisted that she be buried next to him. Funds were short... I'm quite sure that her mother hatched this plan in her last days; this was no act of disrespect. While it's a crime to do what she did, the police finally just said "Well, people don't think straight in times a grief and no one was hurt..."

[jpegghost]

I've had a very mild reaction compared to some people. Don't get me wrong, I'm blistered up and there's pus, but they don't itch much. I occasionally scratch an area near one and it feels Amazing, though, makes me want to take to my legs like a cat to an expensive sofa.

That is an AMAZING story and I LOVE it. I read it twice now I found it so fun. Yes, my woman was casketed and in a shipping container (we have those for corpses!), but I can understand why your husband's cousin did that -- shipping the deceased across state lines is a thousand dollar ordeal. I'm happy the police were understanding, it makes for a great story now.