Post Modernism

Postmodernism - In the postmodern a cultural wasteland arises in consciousness as capital commodifies human thought and action. As a result of corporate capitalism's drive to seek profits wherever possible by injecting itself into human consciousness with its control of cultural definitions of the "real" and desirable, society's ideological posture reflects corporate control of publically owned media. It (corporate capitalism) seeks to create fear of stigmatization and isolation of one's self; it seeks to create artificial needs. Corporate capital now succeeds at convincing humanity that humanity is separate from, not part of nature. The consumer replaces the citizen as a political subject.

Much of industrialized humanity now persues consumer life-styles.

Much of industrialized humanity romanticizes male ideals above a reverence for life.

Much of industrialized humanity has a great interest in the "real," but a pornographic understanding of the visible.

Much of humanity experiences alienation, resentment, and a detachment from others as "reality," reflecting an existence directed by conspicuous consumption and relationships definded by commercial values.

Post-modernism reflected in literature tends to create characters with individual perspectives, transcending the modernist "stream of consciousness" as found in James Joyce; now characters may individually interpret one another's "meaning," accurately or not. The question becomes, as in contemporary life, which perspective mirrors nature as we might find in Shakespeare? See Tony Morrison's Sula for an excellent post-modern novel. More importantly, which system of beliefs mirrors actually existing nature, human and nonhuman?

See George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act, as well as his Mind, Self, and Society for a dialectial, evolutionary discription of the postmodern, American Pragmatism's narrative on the relativity of the self.

Eddie Evans

Crime Scene Cleanup Exercises

Hepatitis B Information for the Crime Scene Cleaner

Hepatitis B Information for the Crime Scene Cleaner

Here's another good reason to keep your distance from blood and OPIM. This sucker likes the open air on hard surfaces, transmits by needle or sharps stick easily enough, and can be found wherever drug abuse occurs (our work place often enough) as well as hospitals.

Hepatitis B's infection rate in the USA is about 0.5 percent of the population.
It is primarily transmitted by blood injected from needle stick and sharps. Drug abuse accounts for many cases of this viral disease because of needle sharing.

Instances of mother to child infection during pregnancy occur.
It is also a sexually transmitted disease and annal intercourse proves it to pass about 1:, 3 females for every male. Among male homosexual annal (sodimizers?) appears to equal between receiver and penetrator.

The virus has shown "stability" for seven days on flat, non-porous surfaces in enclosed environmental surfaces, which gives it a potential for "indirect inoculation of HBV" and can "occur by inanimate object inoculation."

It seems clear to me that keeping one's hands in sight at all times, working slowly and deliberately, and avoiding sharps is an important part of cleaning biohazardous environments because of hepatitis B, HBV.

I will continue to fog and/or ozone first, ask questions later, and then spray my way to the scene.
Source: Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 2008, page 286.

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crime scene cleanup

Death Odor

Death Odor - Miasma

The death odor, which I call "miasma," is not dangerous. Unethical cleaning companies will tell you that this odor is "dangerous." If it were dangerous, coroners' technicians, morticians, pathologists, and Pharos' priests would have died shortly after taking up their trades. The dangers from the death scene odor are in the human imagination; even our repulsion to this odor is learned. There is nothing instinctual about our sense of dread as it relates to the death scene odor. (See new car smell)

Like any other odor, miasma consists of evaporating gas molecules light enough to be carried to our noses. Once inside the nose, sensory cells convert these chemical molecules into electrical signals. These electrical signals are then sent to the brain for interpretation. Mix more than one chemical molecule, and interpretation of the "stink" becomes difficult.

Saying that miasma is "dangerous" because of some sort of bloodborne pathogen hazard is like saying that the cherry fragrance from methamphetamine will intoxicate those exposed to benzaldehyde. It is not so. (return)

There are people that actually enjoy the sweet-like fragrance of decomposed matter, I have heard.

Sometimes miasma lingers because of poor ventilation, Sometimes miasma will linger because it has permeated porous materials; fabrics, paper, wood, and more. Miasma, like everything else in nature, will leave the scene. It begins and ends.

I have cleaned murder-suicide scenes left for over one year. As a result of this extended time for biowaste decay, no miasma remained. The miasma creating bacteria died and wasted away . They starved. Interestingly, blood-soaked garments became pink or purple where they had been first blood-red, then brown, then black. Even blood on walls, ceilings, floors, mirrors, and the rest turns pink or purple without leaving an odor, miasma.
I do my best to remove miasma associated with death scenes. However, removing the source material will not always return the scene to its pre-incident condition for some time. Time and heavy ventilation, and removal of miasma permeated materials will help return the scene to a more "normal" condition.

We can apply chemicals to help increase miasma's departure from the scene, but even chemicals have their limits. Ask about our odor control policies and methods if this is a concern.Top

Bloodborne Pathogens means germs carried in blood that cause suffering. Some of these germs are called "bacteria" and some are called "viruses." These germs can cause diseases in humans. These germs include, but are not limited to, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A simple exposure to these germs and others may be dangerous or deadly.

Many viruses are pathogenic, but none cause miasma. Because viruses lack cell walls that bacteria develop, viruses cannot create odors. Viruses cannot receive and export oxygen and carbon dioxide. They do not "off-gas" the way that germs with cells off-gas. Viruses live directly off their hosts.

Bacteria can live for some time without a host because they store energy within their cell walls. They have their own internal digesting organs. Bacteria can change energy into different forms from within. Sometimes this energy becomes a gas. When expelled, we call it "stink" and at times following a death we call it "miasma." Methane is off-gassed and has no odor.

Even so, we all know that bacteria's off-gassing gives notice of its presence. Following a decomposition, it is this gas that pollutes carpet and padding, wood, walls, paper, cotton clothing, anything "cellulosic."

It is said that the human stomach contains over ten trillion bacteria (10,000,000,000,000). These bacteria must off-gas or explode. Sometimes during human decomposition they do both. The strength of miasma becomes relative to the size, diet, temperature, and other conditions related to the deceased. By way of example, a large male's decomposition after many years of alcoholism and meat eating will create strong miasma when the deceased passes away during summer in Florida. A small female vegetarian's decomposition in front of an apartment window in Wyoming during November will cause much less miasma.

In a sense, bacteria germs belch and flatulate as they undergo changes in temperature and chemical composition. They are in a way like humans: they give and take from their environment, except that these micro-organisms exist within our internal environment. This is one major source of the death odor, the miasma odor released from the trillions of micro-organisms within our bodies as we decompose.

We can see that there is a difference between somehow ingesting or injecting odor causing bacteria and unperceivable viruses. In any case, ingest or inject the the wrong bacteria or viruses, and the results could be deadly. Inhale bacterias' off-gassed carbon dioxide and other gases (miasma) and the results are nauseating at worse.

eddie evans
Los Angeles

Cleaning After Teen Suicides for the Super Rich

Cleaning for the super rich requires anonymity and a desire to look like a regular old guy, ask no questions, enter by the back door, and refuse to look about; not only do I look like a fat, ugly, old guy, my vehicles are dirty, greasy and styled by dints from bumper to bumper, crown to boots. My peculiar crime scene cleaner's style has gathered a following of rich clients for my practice -- groupies, I gather.

There was this teen suicide administered by three attorneys, no parents or guardians. Each attorney explained that he was an "attorney" and gave the clearest instructions for this operation. The first telephoned and did not discuss money. It and everything else would follow in its own way. He said that I already asked "too many questions" and that there were no more question coupons available for this job, if I chose to take it.

My mother always told me to "keep your mouth shut!" so I followed her wisdom into this operation. I followed the first attorney's orders without hesitation or equivocation once I understood that this was no ordinary client. Once on the scene, the second attorney escorted me from the driveway to the back door, onto the shiniest black marble floor -- EVER, and upstairs to the teen's room. "In there," he said and left.

The third attorney's directions ricocheted off the walls, floor and Tah-Mahal-like ceiling as I walked down the stairs. Once on the first floor, he approached me, raised his right hand as if to shake, and said, "Here." He handed me the biggest wad of five-hundred dollar bills that I have ever seen or will see again. Honestly, I had never seen a five-hundred dollar bill until that moment. "You were never here," he said.

Heaven knows that I love cash! The cash's significance testified to the fact that I was never really there, as I come to recollect. I swear that I was never there. Besides that, I could never remember how to get back there, if there really was a "there," once the address was deleted from my GPS. Talk about beautiful homes! This guy's front door probably weighted more than my first car, a 1967 VW. I left by the back door, by the way.

I know that these words taunt anyone sick enough to read my grubby, sadistic thoughts, but I need to get these things off of my chest from time-to-time. Heaven knows that I really do. I really am a caring and sensitive guy. Suicide is never humorous. Teen suicides are inexplicable. But I mean, gads! A tiny rich kid shoots himself in the head with his 22 caliber rifle because he had a bad day, Richard Cory-like:

"In “Richard Cory,” the focus is not on “why” the suicide did what he did; it is on the mystery itself. Certainly, the people who admired Cory because of all he possessed personally and financially did not expect such an act. To them he seemed to have everything worth living for, while they struggled to put food on the table."

A mystery hovers above the suicide itself, above the "why" he did it, sort of like a hot-link lighting up when a cursor hovers over it. There's an unfulfilled expectation embedded in the lit link, but it leads nowhere, no answer to the mystery of it all, beyond the "why" a rich guy commits suicide. Is it possible to have a mystery beyond the "why" of suicide? Cory had it all. Good looks, charm, wealth, white teeth, "a gentleman." The poem's narrator tells us that he had everything to live for and others little of the same.

Regressing, this kid's bedroom was almost as large as my living-room, dining room, and kitchen combined. It's not about "power and wealth" I used to say. (Now I'm honestly not sure what's going to come out of my mouth or finger-tips!) There's something wrong, but I guess it's part of the mystery of a rich kid's suicide.

Then there's this last one, which I won't dwell on. I can say only that I am glad that I am child-free. I would not be able to handle a son or daughter's suicide. I'll never know how the parents felt about it because I never saw them. This operation wasn't quite as detached as the above because a "friend" filled-in as the responsible party.

Frankly, I would be embarrassed to live next to this guy; not embarrassed for me, but for him. How much of everything "just so" and "perfect" can a human being add to their life? This guy's home wasn't cluttered with books, computers, and cats like mine. No, it was basically sparse with a computer room housing the who-knows-what. "Clean" would be an understatement. Me, I could not even begin to pronounce the names on the cars in his garage, all parked upon a polished concrete floor.

Always I remember to say a little prayer for the deceased teens, whether or not they are rich or not so rich. I do not recall cleaning up after a poor kid's suicide, as a matter of fact. I don't recall cleaning after a gang homicide, which is a form of suicide. (More on this later.)

I do recall that I feel a special pity when cleaning after a teen suicide. It is June, by the way, and I have not cleaned any teen suicides this month. Two years running I cleaned after teens committed suicide because they failed to graduate with their peers. What is it that hurts so much; what is it that gnaws away at their insides, what is it that sends them to self-annihilation? So many, most people in the world, have so little to eke out life day to day no matter what tomorrow threatens. They go on, some with tumors bulging from their necks, arms, or face. Some exist with goiters, others without teeth, and many without corrected vision, and many without limbs. So many have perpetual pain.

In the USA, teen suicides seem to occur when the victim is too short on experience, too shallow with knowledge, and too naive to develop a mental schematic of the world beyond family, school, and church.

I will return to my Hume exercises soon. I think that returning to the academic approach to suicide is in good order after all these years of neglect. It seems that I need these exercises because cleaning suicide scenes and not really thinking about the mystery of it all is a bit shallow on my part, to say the least. I suppose that suicide is society's mystery of mysteries.

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suicide-cleanup.com

Eddie Evans on Hume's work about Suicide and the Soul -- It's all about working papers here.

Call me Eddie Evans. I want to write some thoughts on suicide, and after researching the Internet and many books, I cannot imagine a better source from modern philosophy for information on suicide and its metaphysical issues than David Hume. Assuming that I get this project out of the way, it’s one-hundred-and-one, I’ll look to other sources. It is my belief that we will see a significant increase in suicides because of alienation, economic stress, family failures, and other social problems.

I am thinking, off the thread here (a bit), that it is a great pity we will introduce future generations to bigotry in the form of racism and other evils that need not exist in an open society. How the world would improve overnight if we could end bigotry alone!

Back to Hume’s writing on suicide, Hume wrote five dissertations on suicide and the soul and completed them in 1755. Because of cultural and religious issues at the time, Hume withdrew the first book and replaced it with "Of the Standard of Taste."

Hume says that Philosophy exposes superstition and false religion, and that no other remedy against these two parasites exists. Even experience and good sense fail. Can you imagine that, experience and good sense fail against superstition and false religion?

By way of example, my experience tells me that it is wisest to avoid left turns, so I avoid left turns whenever possible. I will make four right turns to avoid one left turn. Is this superstition or good sense? Now, my honorable wife hangs left turns without the slightest hesitation. She refuses to mend her ways, and I cannot guarantee her well-being if she continues in this short-sighted madness. If I am superstitious because of my left-turn-phobia, is she less superstitious because of her willingness to flaunt disaster? I have the good sense, for sure.

Usually good sense and experience work great for just about everywhere else, but for superstition and false religion. Plan as we might, our history shows that among our greatest thinkers these two parasites manipulated the greatest thinkers' thoughts to the poorest ends. The satisfied, the “happy,” and the well-to-do find their greatest joys “blasted” by the shallow thoughts of superstition and false religion. Bring Philosophy to the helm as a cure to these parasites and a more just outcome is assured, unless the guiding Philosophy is itself so infected.

Methinks that if I could just explain the ways of God to man the parasites of superstition and false religions would collide with national and local cronyism, and thereby create a vortex like a black hole. These three enemies of an open society would exit our existence by their own foul essence.
Ed Evans
crime scene cleanup services

My working paper on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul - Thank you David Hume

I cannot imagine a better source from modern philosophy for information on suicide and its metaphysical issues.

Hume wrote Five Dissertations on suicide and the soul and completed them 1755. Because of cultural and religious issues at the time, Hume withdrew the first book and replaced it with "Of the Standard of Taste."

ESSAYS ON SUICIDE,ANDTHE IMMORTALITYOF THESOUL,
Revisited by Ed Evans for posterity.



THESE two Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, though not published in any edition of his works, are generally attributed to the late ingenious Mr. Hume.


The two very matterly Letters from the Eloisa of Rosseau on the subject of Suicide, have been much celebrated, and we hope will be considered as materially increasing the value of this curious collection.


ESSAY I.
ON SUICIDE





Philosophy exposes superstition and false religion. No other remedy against these two parasites exists, more than likely. Even experience and good sense fail. Our history shows that among our greatest thinkers these parasites manipulated their thoughts to the poorest ends. The satisfied, the “happy,” and the well-to-do find their greatest joys “blasted” by these shallow thoughts, these parasites. Bring Philosophy to the helm as a cure to these parasites and a more just outcome is assured, unless the guiding Philosophy is itself infected by superstition and false religion.

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Infectious Waste Working Document

http://www.crimescenecleanup.com/Infectious_Waste_Working_Document.html

From a right-wing propaganda email, I've taken this "straw-man."

In other words, the ultra-right, or maybe I should say the "fascists," create something from nothing, and then cry "foul!". This is basically what Joseph Goebles did for Adolph Hitler.

This is the irony of the matter. It is the "liberals" that will protect Limbaugh's freedom of speech because they know that an "insult to one is an insult to all." What's he talking about. He blasts "liberals" all these years for their liberalness and now he claims that someone wants to "shut him up." His listeners are so stupid that they don't understand the meaning of "liberal," which means toleration in matters of differences of opinion.

This is rediculous if not just vulgar propaganda. It was Georg Bush that tried to kill what's left of media diversity. I can remember Powell's son working overtime to destroy diversity in TV and radio. He could not get over the idea that one big, fat rich prick shoud own all media, one big corporation to rule them all!

Now Limbaugh is spouting dangerous hate-speak and it sounds like he's inviting some nut to assassinate Obama.

Rush on Tape: They Won't Silence Us
This past Saturday Rush Limbaugh won the 'Freedom of Speech Award' at the Talkers convention of talk radio hosts in New York. Newsmax was there -- and we have the video tape. Rush vows that Obama and the liberals in the media won't shut him up. He also warns about the new threat to free speech. See the Full Rush Video -- Go Here Now.

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crime scene cleanup

Khmer Rouge torturer recounts baby-killing policy

We watched it happen and did nothing. The entire world watched it happen and did nothing, except for Viet Nam. After fighting the Japanese, then the French, then the Americans, the Vietnamese entered Cambodia and took on the crazy Khmer Rouge.

I listened to the radio and read about the doings and thought that I would not want to go. I think that I probably would have gone if asked and given the opportunity. I was young enough. It would have been hard to leave my family and civilian life, but I would have been to ashamed not to have gone. I had no excuse not to go at the time, other than my country ignored it. No one wanted another trip to Asia, that's for sure.

Still, to live as a human being in goodfaith, I would have had to go. I didn't and neither did my country. This is a very sore mark on our history and leaves me feeling guilty. It is too late now. I wonder how many times the world will watch this sort of genocide happen? How many more killing fields will we tolerate?

Where was Bush, Cheney, and Limbaugh?

Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup