I know that I was immediately taken by it when I first saw it: I’m a “T-shirt kind of guy” who is generally happy to support the IDP and who, incidentally, has undertaken some “death awareness practice” with a Buddhist teacher. So if this shirt has a “target market,” I’d be it, right? But no.
In fact, after posting a little “announcement”-style write-up about the shirt over on The Worst Horse, I started to reflect more on what the shirt was trying to say, and I wrote directly to Ethan Nichtern of the IDP to share my concerns. Ethan was cool, saying that this could be a subject for just the kind of online dialogue that he believes should be taking place, and he encouraged me to post something up on the IDP’s blog. (That attitude is just one example of why I’m an overall supporter of the IDP.)
So that’s what I did. And I hope you’ll comment and contribute to the dialogue. You can leave a comment here or, on my post at the Interdependence Project site, titled “Sure, ‘This Body Will Be a Corpse’ … but should I wear a shirt that says so?”