The first cemitery I visited, with a different intent than to mourn those who no longer lived among us, was in Macao, as part of a group tour in which we were to become "acquainted" with those who had once settled and lived there, by reading what had been written on their tombstones.
It is undeniably true that one cannot dissociate death from life ... and bearing in mind what Chuck Palahniuk once stated - " We all die. The goal is not to live forever, the goal is to create something that will" - everytime I walk onto a cemetery yard, be it in Guatemala, in the heart of isolated mountains or ... in Finland right in the middle of a peaceful area surrounded by bushes and overlooking the sea or even by the side of a road in Tunisia ... I can't help but wonder (even when there is nothing written on the tombstone) what those, whose resting tombs stand before me, created and left behind.
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