Status Updates From Vampires, Burial, and Death...

“Often people who became vampires were difficult, contentious people while alive. When they died, if anything untoward happened in their vicinity, the suspicion arose that they had something to do with it.” People love scapegoats so much they’ll keep holding a grudge with a corpse

Lacking a proper grounding in physiology, pathology, and immunology, how are people to account for disease and death? The common course, as we shall see, is to blame death on the dead … To prevent this we must lay them to rest properly, propitiate them, and, when all else fails, kill them a second time.