Burial Grounds

Congregations have their burial grounds, as do for, instance, Native American reservations. In Japan August is the month when the memory of ancestors is honored. "Whispering Glades" is what EveIyn Waugh called the cemetery in The Loved One. "Happy hunting grounds" is the generic name, the default where cemeteries are concerned. If you're cremated, you'll end up in a columbarium. If you're buried in a casket, it will be placed in a grave or mausoleum, but caskets are like cars. In fact if you go to one of those funeral chapels, say Frank Campbell's or the Riverside, owned by conglomerates, there are showrooms which display the varying means by which you can be speeded away. If your exhibitionist tendencies continue into death, you will may want the Mercedes or even Bentley of coffins--say something equivalent to the self-driving Tesla, which can bury itself. Maybe the fins of the old Cadillac Bonneville will do the job. There's going to be a procession of hearses, a veritable Sissinghurst of flowers, if you were the kind of person whose parents sent you for social dancing lessons at Viola Wolff and you continue on to be a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade--civilian iteration. "From your mouth to God's ears" is the expression found on the wall of the men's room in one mortuary.

read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy in Kirkus. 

and also read the review of The Wormhole Society (graphic novel) in Booklife.