Thursday, March 23, 2006

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

I went to pick up a mattress recently at a Nursing home in Antioch. There were two driveways close together and I almost pulled into the one next door, which I noticed belonged to a funeral parlor. Of all the businesses to put next to a nursing home, the funeral parlor has to be the one which instills the least amount of confidence in the families of the elderly.

Silver Oaks Care Center
"Where 'moving on' just means going next door."

It's like seeing a Chinese food restaurant next to a pet hospital: It has a kind of morbid, creepy convenience. I'm sure they are only neighbors by coincidence, but it's still uncomfortable.

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