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31 de janeiro de 2022 às 21:33 #646091
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It is paradoxical that we find it so hard to accept the most certain fact of life: death. That we are all going to die is an absolute truth. No one escapes this destiny and yet we spend a good part of our lives trying to ignore or evade it. There are even those who avoid even thoughts or conversations that have to do with death.
This has not always been the case. In ancient Egypt, for example, death was a daily topic. Pharaohs and notables, including slaves, dedicated a good part of their lives to preparing for death. It was customary for men of power to design their tombs well in advance and in luxury. Of course, they did not believe that life ended with physical death.
“Sleep with the thought of death and rise with the thought that life is short.”
-Proverb-
Likewise, the ancient Romans had a very telling custom. When the great generals won a military victory they would enter the city in the middle of an alley of honor. They were cheered by all. However, behind them had to be a slave repeating a phrase in his ear: “Memento mori”. This means: “Remember that you are going to die”. They did not want to harm the moment, but to remind him that no triumph is so great as to be above death.
Death as desire and as finalityThe Middle Ages were the age of religious obscurantism, at least in the West. The world was seen as God’s creation and everything that happened in it had a meaning within the divine logic. Death was the step that allowed an encounter with God. Physical life was only a kind of prelude to that definitive existence.
One of the most representative writings of the time is the poem “I live without living in me” by St. Teresa of Avila. The first stanza reads: “I live without living in me,/and in such a way I hope,/that I die because I do not die”. It reflects an idea of death as desire. However, the impossibility of believing that there is an end to human life persists.
However it was, the truth is that death was a reality that was fully assumed. It was accepted as a fact that had to be talked about and kept in mind. A fact that was given a symbolic explanation and for which human beings had to prepare themselves.
Death and modernityScience has been the bearer of great disappointments for the imagination, at the same time that it has postulated truths that many still resist today. Modernity brought with it a new flowering of science. Leonardo Da Vinci, who was at the dawn of this era, dared to perform autopsies. This began to crack the sacred halo that hung over death.
Then came the great physicians and scientists who waged a frontal struggle against death. The subject also became a matter of science. Thus, one purpose of the new knowledge was to prolong life, which was now seen as a supreme good. It was also revealed that the human being was an evolved mammal and that the laws of biology also applied to him.
A sector of thinkers disbelieved for the first time of a God, and with it of the possibility that there was something beyond physical life. Currents of thought appeared which expressed this, but which also revealed an enormous frustration with life. Nihilism and existentialism are some of them. Those who adhered to these ways of thinking were torn between disillusionment and criticism.
Facing death todayThe industrial revolution brought with it mass production for which there seemed to be no limits. The end of history was proclaimed and an unprecedented technological revolution took place. Step by step we entered the world of the ephemeral, the disposable, the short life cycles, which in any case end only to begin again.
The idea of death began to fade away. It began to disappear from the concerns of the common man. The time for reflection has been almost completely replaced by the time for work, and the rhythm of events hardly allows us to think about how to organize the next hour. It is as if death had become a catastrophic surprise, always taking reality by storm.
So intense is the denial of death, that many even refuse to grieve once it occurs. They try to “get out of it” quickly. To return to their routines as soon as possible. Return to their usual worries. Pretending that it is an alien reality, or, in any case, a distant one.
And what is the point of thinking about death and accepting it as an inescapable fact, many ask themselves. The answer lies in those depressions, anxieties or intolerances that settle like a cyst, without knowing why. Perhaps accepting nothingness, death, is an exceptional way to learn to live life. Perhaps if there is greater awareness that everything ends, there will also appear reasons to give meaning to this day, the only one we have today.
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