The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Families survive one way or another. You have a tie a connection that exists long after death through many lifetimes.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death the real and the imagined past and future the communicable and the incommunicable high and low cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
Creation destroys as it goes throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death multiply itself million upon million rear up city upon city save every parasite alive until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Death does not concern us because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come we no longer exist.
I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.