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Death Becomes Him
posted on December 1, 2014At Medium, Eric Puchner profiles Caleb Wilde, a sixth-generation funeral director who claims that “Death makes us better people.” Wilde’s experiences with death have led him to redefine God’s existence. “Death shakes your assumptive world,” Wilde said. “When you go to pick up a body and it’s been split in half by a train — I mean, literally split in half, in two different parts — it’s hard to believe in a just universe. At least in the Christian sense.”