A little morbid now.

Okay. Yes. Very sad that the Pope died, in that he did a lot of nice things for humanity. His death may allow the Catholic Church to become a bit more progressive with the election of (hopefully) a more progressive new Pope. La la la.

Why isn't this man buried already?! They're waiting like a WEEK to bury him?! Gross. When Jews die, you've got at most 48 hours to haul your sorry ass up the East Coast, and be at Schlossberg & Sons Funeral Chapel, or else you're missed the boat. As I look at the pictures and watch the movies, I'm struck by one thought - isn't it unsanitary for them to be dragging this corpse around? In the first salon, then outside through St. Peter's Square, then into the Basilica... It seems medieval to have him on a stretcher...

Pick him up, put him down, pick him up, put him down. I wouldn't even be nearly as grossed out if he was in a closed coffin...I guess maybe even if he was in a closed glass coffin, but laying him out on a bier and displaying him like a china plate is a little skeevy to me. Dead people leak things. Icky things. Embalming fluid. Other fluids.

I know people want to pay their respects, but I've never been a proponent of open casket funerals anyway - no one ever looks like they did when they were alive. I think the Jews have it right - remember the person as they were when they were alive, and not a sunken, overly powdered ghoul.

He's been dead for a few days now. I wonder if he'll start to smell by the time the funeral stars on Friday. Morbid? Yes. But still... I certainly wouldn't want to be in the same room as a week-dead body.