Vitality Fluid

Could death possibly be non-binary?

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As a middle-aged man who grew up during the Cold War, I saw the world shifting from binary to fluid. It might shock many that my childhood was a world of rightful capitalists against threatening communists, and kids playing cowboys against “indians.” We were either a boy or a girl. The term “gender identity” would have been nonsensical, as gender was gender: either you had a…