American elder care is terrifying. It's basically those old "the savages send their elderly off into the woods to be eaten by wolves" tropes, but real and the wolf is some finance capitalist running a elder care graveyard where they kill your parents and grandparents for profit.
One thing that stuck out to me as absolutely plausible in Tender is the Flesh was that one of the main reasons the protagonist kept his dad in an expensive home was so that when he died there would be a guaranteed cremation that he would personally witness, instead of his father's corpse being sold as cheap meat
American elder care is terrifying. It's basically those old "the savages send their elderly off into the woods to be eaten by wolves" tropes, but real and the wolf is some finance capitalist running a elder care graveyard where they kill your parents and grandparents for profit.
One thing that stuck out to me as absolutely plausible in Tender is the Flesh was that one of the main reasons the protagonist kept his dad in an expensive home was so that when he died there would be a guaranteed cremation that he would personally witness, instead of his father's corpse being sold as cheap meat