I met a Californian who would / Talk California - a state so blessed / He said, in climate, none had ever died there / A natural death, and Vigilance Committees / Had had to organize to stock the graveyards / And vindicate the state's humanity.
In the sylvan acreage of cemeteries like Forest Lawn, we now give death the space to be just one more extreme lifestyle choice, where the body - tanned and tended in life - is, in the words of the British novelist Evelyn Waugh, 'more chic in death than ever before.'
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