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In Brooklyn, the new\u00a0Morbid Anatomy Museum<\/a>\u00a0is certainly morbid but also revealing. Its culturally Jewish but not religious owner says:<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of Americans don\u2019t want to feel deep, painful feelings,\u201d said [Joanna] Ebenstein. \u201cThe idea of death is that the world as we know it could end at any moment. Jews aren\u2019t able to keep that distant from their minds because the world did end\u201d \u2014 with the Holocaust. \u201cThis idea that the sun will rise and everything will be okay, this American denial of death, is a luxury, and Jews have never had that luxury,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t exactly a luxury. You\u2019re going to die and it\u2019s best for you and those you love that you think deeply about what that means. What is the luxury for believing Christians (as it is for observant Jews) is that we can think about death with hope. It\u2019s a bad thing but its badness is not the final thing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"