Death is part of life
My photo project describes how the deceased are taken care of in Sweden. |
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If we are able to imagine death as part of life it might be easier for us when our friends and relatives die. We might even face our own death in a more comfortable way. With my photos I show how an undertaker works, how a cremation is
done and how ashes are scattered in the Memorial grove or to the winds.
I describe different ways to inter the ashes, how the shrouding, the
removal to the mortuary and how a cremation is done.
Poems by Nancy Duci Denofio to some of my photos. |
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| My project Behind the Curtains of Death began many years ago
visiting Nepal, and when I saw how relatives took care of a deceased person.
The cremation was done on a river bank under the open sky and children
were bathing next to the burning corpse. Death was a natural part of life.
When I returned home I started to photograph and to study death and funerals
in Sweden.
I have had lectures at medical schools, high schools and places where the staff faces the death or the relatives to dead people. Contact me if you have questions about my project or if you are interested to hear a lecture. |
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| I wondered why dying is such a taboo in the West. Why is it that we
study conception in school but we don't know what happens to the dead
body at the end of the cycle of life? Why don't we know how to arrange
a funeral? In the Swedish language I have found more than 20 synonyms and expressions for death and dying. I have found even more in English. If you know still more, please mail these to me and I will add them to the synonym list. |
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