The World Has Officially Gone Mad
Masking corpses
A reader in Northern Italy told us this story. It’s macabre, unreal, and, quite frankly, dotty.
Our reader’s father died of natural causes. After a five-act drama to get permission to bury him (we’ll spare you the details), our reader went to the funeral parlour to say goodbye to his dad.
The mortician greeted him, wearing a mask. The reader inquired whet…