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The money presumably goes to his heirs, so I don’t know how that is vulture-like. The alternative is that this stuff just gets thrown away or donated to a thrif
by keiferski 1y ago
The money presumably goes to his heirs, so I don’t know how that is vulture-like. The alternative is that this stuff just gets thrown away or donated to a thrift shop.
More broadly, it’s pretty cool that there are objects out there in the world that have been used by an artist or person you admire. Personally I managed to buy a scarf that Raymond Chandler wore, a few months ago at an online auction. It’s just a scarf, but there is something quite special about the fact that one of my favorite writers wore it. It’s a unique object in a world of manufactured identical goods.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThat merely makes it cannibalistic and incestual vulturing. "The corpse is cooling! Quick, sell his clothes!"
- bathtub365 1y agoWhere else should it all go?
- IAmBroom 1y agoI'm not criticizing the redistribution of goods of the departed. Wills used to state where "my best garment" and "my second-best bed" would go. I'm pointing out that mercantile opportunism isn't necessarily less repugnant when done by the surviving family.