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Mortality & Impermanence

Death should be known. Known as a difficult mental, physical, and emotional process, respected and feared for what it is.

Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Every time we allow ourselves and our communities to grieve — for a person, for a season, for a movement, for a dream — we are practicing a politics that refuses disposability. We are rejecting the idea that we can just move on without consequence.

Jamila Bradley • Grief Is a Practice: The Western Struggle with Letting Go

watch Jim Henson’s funeral on YouTube.

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

She said, “Just a bit of elder advice: The weight of secrets and deaths continue to grow as you age. So plan more quiet time for yourself. You’ll need it.” She continued: “About deaths: find people who get it and talk to them. We can’t get through it without each other, and folks outside our world don’t have a freaking clue what we’re going

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

Hopeful Perspectives 1 Year After My Son’s Birth/Death

Chase Reeves medium.com

Stephen: Twice I have performed having just found out that someone I loved passed away, and I had to go on immediately, and I can’t watch—I haven’t watched either one of them and it’s been many years. I just can’t bring myself to watch whoever that guy was that got through it.

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new “ethical duty to enjoy oneself,” a novel “imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.”

Joan Didion • The Year of Magical Thinking

Grief

Parami Santiyago • 3 cards