The Morthouse

This blog belies my real relationship with its subject matter. Despite all you see here, I don’t like death. 

I need to come out about a few things:

• I’ve never seen a dead body. (That’s not counting bog bodies and mummies in museums.) 
• I have been fascinated with death — particularly its physical aspect — since childhood. Before I settled on my various courses of study in college and grad school, I considered becoming an undertaker, a forensic anthropologist, or a pathologist. I never did, of course. In high school, I took a course on sports medicine and during a slide show of injuries, I blacked out at the sight of a severed hand sitting on a table. I knew I wouldn’t be able to hang with that kind of career, and I’ve been only a spectator ever since.
• I am deeply, terribly afraid of dying. This has been an issue for me since childhood, when I used to repeat the sentence “I am going to die” to myself in my head, over and over, in hopes that this would make the truth more understandable. But it never did. It still hasn’t, and I’m 33.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way: Nice to see you here. My name’s Amanda, and I live in Austin, Texas. I have three other Tumblrs, which you may or may not want to visit. I’m an editor and communications specialist by day at a non-profit, but I’ve also dabbled in academia and libraries.

Thanks for reading.

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