From Home to Outsourced: How Modern Life Distances Us from Life's Essential Cycles

 

 

Someone once remarked how in the past, 

 

The major life events—birth, marriage, illness, and death—all took place in the home.

 

People were born in the main bedroom, celebrated their first birthday, their wedding, and even their sixtieth birthday all within their own walls. They were cared for during illness at home and even passed away there. Life and death were intimately connected to our living spaces, making these natural processes a familiar part of existence.

 

Nowadays, however, we outsource these critical life events:

 

Births take place in maternity wards,

Marriages and milestone celebrations are held in event venues, 

Illnesses lead directly to hospital stays, and 

Deaths are managed in funeral homes. 

 

 

By removing these essential life processes from our homes and treating them as services managed by others, we've grown to fear death more. 

 

We've distanced ourselves not just from death, but from life itself, by turning these deeply personal events into transactions.

This shift reflects a broader change in how we perceive and handle life's inevitable transitions, suggesting that perhaps by reclaiming these experiences into our personal spaces, we might better embrace and understand the natural cycle of life and death.

 

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