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A rose is a rose, so it\u2019s said, and smells just as sweet by any other name.\u00a0 Perusing our newspaper of record, the Crab Cracker now that the Stanwoodopolis Gazette has abdicated its role of reporting local news, I came across a notice that a new group had formed in the area for those coping with the loss of a loved one.\u00a0 Death Caf\u00e9.\u00a0 I know, I should be more sympathetic, possibly even supportive, might even be in need myself someday \u2026 but golly, Miss Molly, couldn\u2019t they have come up with a better name?<\/p>\n
Death Caf\u00e9.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, it just \u2026 well, it just \u2026 it has a certain morbid and cadaverous quality to it.\u00a0 I mean, you get to wondering what\u2019s on the menu.\u00a0 Eggs 6 feet under, easy over.\u00a0 Soup de jour, eye of newt in a tomato bisque.\u00a0 BLT\u2019s, blood lettuce and tomato.\u00a0 You can hardly stop yourself from imagining the worst sorts of breakfasts, lunches and dinners.\u00a0 Zombieburgers, cooked rare.<\/p>\n
But these are the times we live in.\u00a0 Touchy-feely in a modern and alienated world.\u00a0 Probably better than a bunch of tweets from people you barely know on Twitter, I suppose, but c\u2019mon, Death Caf\u00e9 for the luvva\u2026. ?\u00a0 Why not, oh, I don\u2019t know, Heaven\u2019s Gate Diner, or Streets of Gold Chop House (okay, \u00a0maybe not), Pearly Gates Beanery, Adios Amigo Pizza Parlor, Ashes to Ashes Tavern —anything but Death Caf\u00e9, even Death Anonymous.<\/p>\n
The trouble, of course, is a lot of us secular humanists, having renounced the old school religions of our parents (who are now gone too late for the Death Caf\u00e9), don\u2019t know how to deal with our grief for the dearly departed since there\u2019s no, let\u2019s call it \u2018closure\u2019.\u00a0 Imagine there\u2019s no heaven, Lennon sang.\u00a0 No hell below us, above us only sky.\u00a0 You think that\u2019s going to make folks feel better when their loved one bites the bullet, think again.\u00a0 John says you may think that I\u2019m a dreamer, but I\u2019m not the only one.\u00a0 Swell, John, just swell.\u00a0 He says he hopes one day we\u2019ll join him and the world will live as one. One what?<\/p>\n
If John were around today, he\u2019d be the fry cook at the Death Caf\u00e9, no doubt about it.\u00a0 Actually, he\u2019d be head chef at the Imagine Bar and Grill.\u00a0 Happy Hour all day long\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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