Thursday, July 26, 2012

Outsourced Grave Care With A Cemetery Butler?

Have you hired a wantologist, someone you can hire to help you figure out what you want?  Everything can be outsourced now.  If you want to break up with someone you can hire a person to do just that.  You can hire a life coach, a potty trainer for your infant, a housekeeper, a house sitter, a surrogate mom taxi service, a wedding planner, a birthday party planner, a knife coach, etc.  Or you can rent a cat, rent a ferret, rent a dog, rent a friend, rent a mom and/or dad, rent a  grandmother and/or grandfather, rent a womb, etc.  You can hire a grave visitor or gravetender or grave butler, someone who will visit, tend, beautify, place flowers on, palm crosses on, etc.  the graves of loved ones.  All of this speaks to how "busy" we all are now.  We're busy busy busy, too  busy to do the above ourselves.  You can hire others to do almost anything.  Do we really want this?  If you google wedding planner, 25 million results pop up.

Thanks to Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of "The Outsourced Self:  Intimate Life in Market Times."

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