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“If the dead are virtually memorialized, they never really die. The more in-depth the memorial and the greater its permanence, the more the deceased remain with the living.”36
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
— Ele dizia que a Azalea já está morta e o que a mantém viva não é deste mundo. Edgar Wilson se lembra do que Tomás presenciou anos atrás. De quando esteve frente a frente com um garoto que estava morto havia vários meses e seu corpo era preservado por um demônio que falava através dele.
Ana Paula Maia • Búfalos selvagens (Portuguese Edition)
Dialogues of the dead differ from symposia of the living not only because people of different eras and cultures converse, but also because, as shades living posthumously, they no longer consider the life circumstances in which they speak. What they say can no longer benefit or harm them.
O silêncio desceu sobre todas as coisas da casa, e o silêncio dos mortos grita.
Carla Madeira • Véspera (Portuguese Edition)
because; ‘The dead heroes transform into serpents in the underworld.’
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
with is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that their presences exist and haunt us.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
What The Red Book shows is that the dead are experienced as contents of the unconscious, as discarnates or disembodied souls and they have a psychological relationship.
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
The dead want to take you over. It is then a quite literal possession that is at play there. At risk there. But in a way it’s only through recognizing their demands that one is actually able to separate out from them at the same time and regain one’s independence.