Spotted this on Tumblr recently:
I have developed a sort of love/hate relationship with it, or perhaps not so much the picture itself as what it represents… cos on the face of it, it really is piss funny and fills me with delight, but good Christ I hate the word “unalive”. I see it used quite often on Youtube and on Tumblr, and I know there are reasons—particularly related to The Algorithm—why people use it, but I still hate it. I know there’s a school of thought that the modern west is a lot less comfortable with the concept of death than it used to be, and that might well be the case, though I think society at large can only go so goth before it just gets silly; I mean, I tend to think about death (particularly mine) fairly often but that’s because, you know, disability, health, a life-changing illness that will probably shorten my existence in this vale of tears. all that gives me a certain perspective. Most people don’t need to think about death; it might come for us all but not all of us really need to worry about that.
But the very word “unalive” certainly serves as evidence for that theory about how uncomfortable we are with the idea of death; so much so that some of us can’t even bear the idea of the mere word and we have to make do with this bullshit that Orwell would’ve shake his head at sadly. It’s not even “political correctness gone mad”, it’s just… silly. And so, however hilarious the meme is (and it is, obviously), I still find myself kind of galled a bit by it… cos that’s me and what I’m like, I suppose.
So there’s an ambient tribute to a certain Lou Reed album I recently had a 
I suppose the taller Dutch people of the 1800s literally kept their heads above water to survive? Also, I wish this would’ve clarified whether “exposure to hazardous substances” should be considered a positive or negative influence…