Templo Santa Muerte photos by Megan RosenbloomEveryone dies. Good morning! You are going to die. Hi, hello, we are all future corpses. It sucks, but embracing that awful fact might make all this bullshit a little easier. We Americans barely confront death, instead centering our entire culture around young people who refuse to acknowledge age, let alone aging's end result.Megan Rosenbloom does just the opposite. She's a librarian who works with rare books, studies the history of medicine, and is the co-founder and director of Death Salon, which gathers writers, artists, and death professionals for public events and lectures around the world. This episode, she joined me and fellow VICE contributor Grant Pardee, plus our special guest comedian Cornell Reid to talk about the cult of the Mexican saint of Death, Santa Muerte.
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