It's The Dead's Day

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3:01It's the dead's day. Yesterday was Halloween here in America, which is a fun holiday for children. It's full of masks and candy and staying up late. In Mexico, however, today is the beginning of Dia de los Muertos, a more adult and philosophical holiday. All throughout Mexico, people will gather not for treats, but to celebrate and remember their friends and family who have died. It is, in a sense, a three-day commemoration, the idea of memento mori, a kind of collective bereavement mixed with the fun of a jazz funeral. The great Montaña, and if you haven't read his famous essays or Sarah Bakewell's How to live, you must.

3:39He would tell a story that had trickled back to him from the new world of an ancient drinking game where the members took turns holding up a painting of a corpse inside a coffin and cheered, drink and be merry for when you are dead, you will look like this. And this cheeky but also profound observation captures the spirit of Dia de los Muertos as well with its imagery of skulls and skeletons, the makeup, the music, the dancing, the praying, the altars set up to honor those who have left. It may seem strange to celebrate death in this way and stranger still to involve children in it, but is it really any stranger than banishing all thoughts of death from our lives and letting it return to us only as a dreaded nightmare?

4:21Or pretending that the one thing that is guaranteed to happen to all of us doesn't even exist? There is real value in taking time to process and grieve and dance with the morbidity of our mortality, of creating a ritual that allows us to come to terms with this essential part of our existence. Better to be on good terms with death and to schedule an annual checkup than to be surprised and shocked by this enemy we all share. So drink and be merry today and celebrate the day of the dead. Say goodbye to the people you have lost and enjoy the people you are lucky enough to still have with you. That's all we can do.

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