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DEATH IS THE MUSE! Read about it, write about it, talk about it.You have found a unique site that presents death as central to the art of life. You will be presented with extraordinary movies, books, essays, poems, paintings and photographs, as recommended or contributed by visitors, that offer unique world views and personal commentaries on death. Creative evocations of the interplay of life, love and death provide an opportunity to move from mental positions of superstition, myth, fear, paralysis and barely coping to being transformed by the experience. Whether exposed in its everyday banality, captured under the harsh searchlight of truth, or illuminated in a glow of beauty, the many guises of death, dealt with in powerful and moving ways as part of the continuum of life, reveal the measure of our humanity. The visual and written arts allow us to explore and develop a new therapeutic relationship with death, potentially enhancing the depth and direction of our lives dramatically.
Enter the realm of fascination inspired by THE GOOD CEMETERY GUIDE. In this contemporary novel, a guitar-playing, reluctant third-generation funeral director takes on destiny. Join us on a journey of discovery into the practices of death in the wider world beyond the fishing village of the novel as we explore cultural differences across the planet. Death is an unlikely dinner table subject in our modern day world; following our fictional hero's example, we take a fresh approach, facing death as we question its nature. May we affirm ourselves as artists of life by opening up a space of knowledge and insight around the inevitability of death. May we still our fear of death and dying through the transformative nature of art.
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