This issue is very delicate, because in our Western culture is feared and denied. The death is considered just a freak accident that is necessary to hide. But yet it is the lifelong conditioning, creativity, art, everything that makes bearable the inevitable fact of finitude (...)
Past and future are both imaginary spaces. The past is always longing for what we will know , for example, our petite body of children or our parents. We're always missing something and have to get used to it and say goodbye, or to develop games. Not only individuals, but of things: the work of mourning is a basic function. A depression is defined as the person who did not learn to say goodbye, to say "Bye, my child's body" or "Bye, Mom" \u200b\u200bis also extremely painful goodbyes, as the bye coming in the opposite: "Bye, my son" ( ...).
We must learn the farewell ceremony, which is the duel. I have traveled a lot and strange places, I've been with Indians in the Amazon, U.S., marginal places like the Bronx and later in India. In these places, I noticed the different ways to solve the games. So what does the duel is buried, as the dead are buried in the heart with words, only the body is left on earth. Symbolically, the slab of the tomb has an anthropological meaning is something heavy to prevent the dead come back, because internally, the dead come back if one does not develop (...)
All cultures have a ceremony that is the funeral, especially the primitive cultures, wisest and ecological , who have a good relationship with death, while technology such as ours, have ceremonies too poor, too short to end soon and forget. Before the vigil was done in the same house where the deceased had lived, it was important, because it was in that house where they would get more, the scenery was allowed to bounce deep, allowing the tears and tell everyone something the "finadito", ie to make an imaginary construct that person. (...) Today, the family goes to a funeral home, and give them the room for example 4, a Anonymous department (almost like a temporary shelter for the dead). The families do not do anything, do not participate as before, digging, building the drawer, or had any job in the preparation of the body, as dress or dress the corpse. Here and now, all employees do not know the deceased, then the relatives are ten minutes, take a coffee and go.
wild-called Amazonas, when someone dies, they make a beautiful ceremony filled with emotion and respect. They make a great mess, painted with ashes, are thrown to the ground, crying for days, something very profound. Before the week, raise the dead, put him in a canoe and push it by the river, with food and cutlery, to go to the city of the dead and the end of the week end, bathe and are in peace. This is a culture that successfully develops the theme of death, whereas ours is not does it well. In fact, we are savages. (...) One of the valuable tools that nature gave us is crying, that being seizure, relaxes the muscles, because death is scary-contraction, and as the tears loose, you have to do is to fully mourn to loosen the muscle contraction and decrease anxiety.
There is an issue that defends us from death, and love is all you can face death. Death and love are antagonistic , which has to do with that I exist because someone else looks at me, and if I do not see me no longer exist. Besides, I do not die at all, if someone reminds me. In Madrid I read the motto on a shield that read "Life should be so lucky, I live will remain in death." (...)
Pigeon A key phrase was: "Death is as far as my larger project. " is, if I have a hope, a life project, I'm dead (...)
(Excerpts from the article "Death and mourning" by Alfredo Moffatt)
Image: André Kertész (1984-1985)
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