Who is afraid of Death?

with Claudia Cardinal

It is our image of the Grim Reaper that evokes our fear and repression. We adopt the attitude: death is the end. Everything is over and done.

And since we have more than a million deaths each year in Germany, this silence is fatal because it isolates and alienates us all, reducing all mourners, all those with questions, to the broad and pathologized concept of “grief,” which is hardly even defined.

It is our image of the Grim Reaper that evokes our fear and repression. We think the attitude: death is the end. Everything is over and done. And since we have more than a million deaths each year in Germany, this silence is fatal because it isolates and alienates us all, reducing all mourners, all those with questions, to the broad and pathologized concept of “grief,” which is hardly even defined. What if death is not the end?

Perhaps through the workshop, the Grim Reaper can unveil his disguise, and we can realize how fleeting and translucent matter can be. Then we can get to the bottom of transformation.