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So again, the physical cessation of life is not the same as
death.
So after a person's physical death, their body is placed in a special room in the traditional residence, which is called the tongkonan.
And the tongkonan is symbolic not only of the family's identity but also of the human life cycle from birth to
death.
Until the funeral ceremony, which can be held years after a person's physical death, the deceased is referred to as "to makala," a sick person, or "to mama," a person who is asleep, and they continue to be a member of the household.
But instead of giving in to the sort of visceral reaction we have to this idea of proximity to bodies, proximity to death, or how this notion just does not fit into our very biological or medical sort of definition of death, I like to think about what the Torajan way of viewing
death
encompasses of the human experience that the medical definition leaves out.
I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true despite the widespread acceptance of the biomedical definition of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, that there's a period of transition as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.
So the funeral ceremony itself embodies this relational perspective on
death.
It ritualizes the impact of
death
on families and communities.
There's a saying in Toraja that all people will become grandparents, and what this means is that after death, we all become part of the ancestral line that anchors us between the past and the present and will define who our loved ones are into the future.
So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about
death
in this place: its impact on life and the relationships of the living.
So all of this focus on
death
doesn't mean that Torajans don't aspire to the ideal of a long life.
So by having
death
as a part of the cultural and social fabric of life, people's everyday decisions about their health and healthcare are affected.
And his
death
will be greatly mourned.
People ask me if I'm frightened or repulsed by participating in a culture where the physical manifestations of
death
greet us at every turn.
But I see something profoundly transformative in experiencing
death
as a social process and not just a biological one.
We, like the Torajans, base our decisions about life on the meanings and the definitions that we ascribe to
death.
But I want to ask what we can gain from seeing physical
death
not only as a biological process but as part of the greater human story.
If we could expand our definition of
death
to encompass life, we could experience
death
as part of life and perhaps face
death
with something other than fear.
Perhaps one of the answers to the challenges that are facing the U.S. healthcare system, particularly in the end-of-life care, is as simple as a shift in perspective, and the shift in perspective in this case would be to look at the social life of every
death.
It might help us recognize that the way we limit our conversation about
death
to something that's medical or biological is reflective of a larger culture that we all share of avoiding death, being afraid of talking about it.
If we could entertain and value other kinds of knowledge about life, including other definitions of death, it has the potential to change the discussions that we have about the end of life.
Twelve walked on its surface, of whom Aldrin, following the
death
of Armstrong last year, is now the most senior.
I'd seen a lot of death, in particular epidemic death, and epidemic
death
has a different feel to it.
It began with this tweet: "On November 28 at 10:13 p.m., a woman identified as Miranda Brown, 44, of Brooklyn, fell to her
death
from the roof of a Manhattan hotel."
It begins in Elliott's voice, but then Elliott's voice recedes, and we hear the voices of Elsa, Margot and Simon, characters that Elliott created on Twitter specifically to tell this story, a story from multiple perspectives leading up to this moment at 10:13 p.m. when this woman falls to her
death.
"Give me liberty or give me death."
"Give me liberty or give me
death"
is all well and good if you can afford it, but if you're living on less than one dollar a day, you're far too busy trying to survive and to provide for your family than to spend your time going around trying to proclaim and defend democracy.
The building was under construction until the collapse of the Venezuelan economy and the
death
of the developer in the early '90s.
So a year goes by before the cancer, as cancers do, reappears, and with it comes another
death
sentence, this time nine months.
The cancer begins to shrink, and for the third time, we've dodged
death.
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