"As I'm sure you've noticed, death isn't the great equalizer it's made out to be. Layers of hierarchy remain, interlaced by the tangled webs of power and privilege. The dead, after all, are human, and what could be more human than an unnecessarily oppressive bureaucracy at the end all be all of existence?"
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Daniel José Older, Protected Identity (2010), reprinted in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013), , p. 226
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