Death, Etc.
So call me strange but the past couple of days I’ve had this fascination with death, funerals, cremation and the like.
I stayed up until 6:30am last night watching different documentaries that explain the process of cremation, embalming and other aspects of end-of-life care.
In one of the docs I watched, a 72 year old man decided he hadn’t ever really thought about what would happen after he died or how he’d have his funeral and such arranged so he went out to face the reality of it all.
He started at the crematorium where he was shown how it works, what the process involves and whatnot, then he went on to check out how the embalming process works, etc.
One of the things he kept repeating throughout the documentary is that many cultures aren’t as afraid of death as we seem to be in North America and other places because they’re more in tune with it and they accept that death is in fact a part of life. Especially when he went back into history and you realize how the lack of medical care and treatments meant that people died much more often than they do today.
Which got me thinking and agreeing with him. I think that if we did look death in the face it would help us understand it and be able to cope with it better.
I’m not saying I’d be okay with anyone I know and love dying… it just makes it more… understandable, I think?
I don’t know. I’m just babbling now. Thoughts?
If anyone is interested in the doc I watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwoNiVrCVf0
I stayed up until 6:30am last night watching different documentaries that explain the process of cremation, embalming and other aspects of end-of-life care.
In one of the docs I watched, a 72 year old man decided he hadn’t ever really thought about what would happen after he died or how he’d have his funeral and such arranged so he went out to face the reality of it all.
He started at the crematorium where he was shown how it works, what the process involves and whatnot, then he went on to check out how the embalming process works, etc.
One of the things he kept repeating throughout the documentary is that many cultures aren’t as afraid of death as we seem to be in North America and other places because they’re more in tune with it and they accept that death is in fact a part of life. Especially when he went back into history and you realize how the lack of medical care and treatments meant that people died much more often than they do today.
Which got me thinking and agreeing with him. I think that if we did look death in the face it would help us understand it and be able to cope with it better.
I’m not saying I’d be okay with anyone I know and love dying… it just makes it more… understandable, I think?
I don’t know. I’m just babbling now. Thoughts?
If anyone is interested in the doc I watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwoNiVrCVf0