Texture of Decease

Have you been thinking about what you will look like when you are dead? Exactly! Such a weired question. However, you might start to think about it after you check my recommendation.

Last weekend I watched the movie, 送行者(Departures), which won the best foreign language film of Oscar. It's a story about a man discovering and learning a job as a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for cremation. With the emotional soundtracks, it is easily to be touched by the plots. For the best part of the film, when the man is scrupulously cleaning, dressing and making-up for the dead body, it's as if you could feel how he conducts it on their skin and the process is still deeply sacred and solemn.

Actually, before going to the movie, i am reading a book, 死前活一次(Noch Mal leben vor dem Tod). The author and photographer documented 25 patiences for their last periods in their lives. Because of the terminal cancers, most of them were informed how long they could live at the most. In other words, they were just forced to face the death... with no hope. Moreover, every individual story comes with two pictures in the first two pages. One was taken on the day they informed the deadline and the other was on the day they died. Indeed, they are all sad stories and even telling you the life is still cruel at this hopeless moment, but it reminds me of the importance of health and treasuring my families and friends before the death comes to me.