re: #115 goddamnedfrank

Saw that after I posted. Still, at some age cutoff you are simply not allowed to take a dead person home with you. You can’t take a dead dog or an amputated limb home with you from the vet / hospital, there are rules. This practice seems anachronistic at best.

Actually you can. I’ve taken a number of dead animals home from the vet for burial. In most states people have the right to prepare the deceased at home for burial or cremation. There is no requirement for embalming. Unless the laws have dramatically changed since I last enquired about this, it is still the same.

As to “average Americans”, I doubt there is such an animal. And never was, even in the “good old days”. You can probably find regions with enough people who have had similar experiences to appear to be average, but as soon as you step out of the region, your statistics would crumble.