Logos and Thanatos

On death and euphemism.

Some while ago,

Matthew Gasda

wrote in his Writer’s Diary:

Modernity convinces us that there’s a means to control everything in our lives; that there are mechanisms to control both the nature outside of us and within. There are pills, apps, machines, as well as ideological rules and social mores that promise to ameliorate the most frightful and wooly aspects of being…