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August 11, 2009

• This is a fairly common phenomenon across the globe. The names and meanings ascribed to it are fascinating and have enough variance given the undeniable commonalities. The name in Mexico is particularly evocative, "a dead body climbed on top of me". A lot of the time it is described as Old Hag syndrome and that has its own particular mythology to it and fits into a larger subset of beliefs regarding the superstitions revolving around sleep and night time.

• This is a sad thing. The title says it all about what is going on, but the scale, and the impact of it has to be read. It's hard to imagine the difficulty of not giving a loved one a proper burial and leaving it up to the government. These government required burials and cremations are in addition to the numerous transients and other unidentifiable or unclaimed bodies. Also of note are the statistics on deaths and the numbers for coroner services.

• This is a news story about a real plague in the modern world and the efforts to bring it to a swift and safe end for as many as possible. When it came to my attention it came with an expression of disbelief from the person quoting the article. Something has to be done to grab a plague and stomp it out saving as many lives as possible. What kind of world is it where action to save lives is seen as too extreme if people have to be inconvenienced for a couple days to save them? This alone is of interest to explore in fiction, let alone the setting potential of a place locked down for safety dealing with some other threat that is only exacerbated by the seclusion.

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