Unto dust we shall return.
Caskets are big-ticket items, especially if one chooses the leather rallye package.
That way, death is everywhere among the living. Even Ball's treatment of grief over the death of a loved one, the ultimate expression of self-involvement, has a contrary twist. The difference, however, is hardly subtle. Quite the opposite. It's riveting because Ball and his co-writers make the fiction more situationally real than networks consider bankable.