Surrounded by Death and Wondering: Can Talking About Death Lead us to Become Less Violent?
Posted by carolsmaldino on Nov. 1, 2013, 11:55 a.m.
I am still afraid of death but less so, for the processing of it, what it correlates to in my own life, my psyche and experience. It is more like grief, about the stuff that seems and has seemed impossible. I have come to feel that in our own horror of disappointments, imperfections, and the final one--death--that we tend to compensate by being the ones to kill, acting like we can live forever, and doing violence. Instead of processing the violation that is death, we violate and cause the violence: in our imaginations we undo the being violated. My sense is that through processing death, the limits to our capacities and our imperfections, we equalize a playing field, perhaps make some peace and may not feel compelled to seek out a lust for violence so steadily...I hope...