Morgue Shopping?
I enjoy the off beat, be it stories, places or people. I used to be clearly off beat person, but as of lately I have outwardly become normal so to say. Today my off beatness is hidden from the everyday person. To those that are strangers that pass in the night here is a view into my interest.
I love stories of crime be it true to fictitious, ancient to today, solved to unsolved, written to TV I find it all fascinating.
The first crime to ever capture my imagination was the death of King Tut the child Pharaoh, the thoughts as to if it was murder or accident, if murder was it due to want of power, politics, money, or return to old religion. This complex story lead me down the road of wanting to be an archaeologist so that I might be able to answer a question of “who done it?”. It was a simple thought process for a young child to want to know “who done it” but as I have grown I want other questions answered. With a unnatural death what was the catalyst, what was seen to have great enough value to take someones life, be it present, past or even ancient past. My questions are not limited to just the one on one crime but that of a large collective. As seen in societies it is found to be OK, if not needed, for the death of another to cause change or to provide examples. Change in politics, god’s favor, purity of race, power, territories, trade, greed, religion/morals or law can be seen as sanctioned reasons by Societies for unnatural/murder of others deaths through out history.
I guess this is all to give some understanding as to how my seemingly macabre interest just comes around to the simple idea of knowing how a we all tick be it on our own or as a collective, what is our value?
With all of this said I hope that by stating that one of the main places that I want to go to if I should ever visit Los Angeles will be understood. A must visit stop for me is L.A. Morgue gift shop.
