burier

Your filthy Triple Goddess, Kaby, the birther, bride, and burier of man!

Some of the more repulsive or dangerous jobs included fuller, chimney sweep, executioner, leech collector, Plague burier, rat-catcher, leather tanner, gong farmer and sin-eater.

And let this world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a ling'ring act; But let one spirit of the first-born Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end And darkness be the burier of the dead!

This theme, whose prevalence suggests that the author has seen craziness up close, supplies the ruling metaphor for the collection: a debilitating, humiliating, alienating condition -+breaker of hearts, killer of promise, burier of goals - that can be escaped only through death; a condition, in other words, that's very much like life.