Some things are unavoidable in "this" life. Dying is one of them. Death has it's own protocols; very much a tradition in this country.
You get an incurable illness. The hospital becomes involved. The insurance companies wait (with widening eyes, thinking about their bottom line), families gather with greedy thoughts of inheritence, or humane grief, or a sense of loss.The funeral occurs, and life goes on.
Right?
Wrong.
Death is, in actuality, NOT the end. But the beginning of a "second life". In America, you are not dead, until many people say you are dead.
The death of an American citizen sets off a chain of actions and intereactions, most of them financial in nature, between institutions; including the hospital, insurance companies, the funeral home, a plethora of government agencies (Social Security, Medicare, Medicad, the Labor Department, the Veterans Administration[if you were a veteran], and even the Office of Homeland Security), retail tracking agencies (oh yes, Wal Mart knows!), banks, debt collection agencies, mortage companies, and lawyers (to name only a few).
Thus, until all accounts are closed, lists updated, and the knowledge of your demise is desiminated throughout the entirety of "Amerisystemology", the hole in which you now reside, resembles a civil purgatory.
You may be dead, however, you become "reborn", acquiring, in fact, a "second life", (implying a second death).
One way or the other, the vultures are going to have brunch.
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