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...but those coffins weigh a ton.
Cary, you're terrific, and I always enjoy your column, but I have to agree with another reader who said this piece feels a little padded.
Why waste a paragraph wondering how a dead person can mysteriously weigh more? You don't exactly have to be Miss Marple to realize you're carrying an enormous crate of bronze.
I find the reader's comments to this question much more touching and personal in this instance. Don't get lazy on us, dude! You're one of the sane voices in the wilderness on whom we all depend on for insight. It's beneath you to get all existentially poetic about how heavy death feels, when you use such shallow logic.
I know, I'm an ass for pointing this out, but sometimes a cold splash of reality is as helpful as anything as we struggle to get a handle on things.
