[UA] TABOO

[T. McGrenery]

> And if it's just a thing about mutilating the dead, why doesn't organ
> donation give the same ick factor?  Perhaps if people signed up and
> carried cards labeling them as registered Meat Donors.

Personally, I get a bit of the ick factor with that, too. For example, it
would take a lot of convincing for me to allow an autopsy on one of my
relatives.

It may, perhaps, be worth noting that I found out about autopsies from
playing Call of Cthulhu. Curse you, Sandy Petersen!

-- Tom McGrenery
"The vampire is a familiar stand in for "outsiders" who society mistrusts
like Jews, blacks, homosexuals, and werewolves."


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