Death hovers over Life
We have such a complex relationship with this fact of life, this inevitibility, this passage onward, or final sleep. In Western culture, we have taken the point-of-reference of the body and the bereaved: death is the worst thing that can happen. We look at the body with life extinguished; we feel the loss of one whose presence in the world we have cherished and felt the need of, or simply gotten deeply used-to. We grieve, when we have to, and the rest of the time, we deny. In other cultures,... Sign in to see full entry.