Memento Mori

Usually death is excluded from everyday considerations and is not talked about in normal conversations. The last journey is in most cases only discussed on a given occasion, almost as a rule when a relative or acquaintance dies a lonely death in a sterile clinic. The reason for this may be seen in the repression of death, which has its roots in the fading of the religious, loosening of family ties, dissolution of flourishing life nexuses, urbanization that leads to anonymization and in the withdrawal into individualism …