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 In practice, the material can only be partial; thus, in daily life, private property and money as fungible values hold great significance. In what is dead, only the shell remains: the implicit has been stripped of its soul, gold, momentum, and faith. That body no longer inhumates; it is mere exhibition and confession, and so it continues to decompose. Decomposition is the body's return to the world, a going back to the world, which is why people may find joy in the misfortune of others. The inhumation of the dead body remains in the hands of the living.