A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories