Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: death rituals

  • Immortal death: before and after

    Karen De LoozeBelgium The slow revenge of unforgiving LawAnd the deep need of universal painAnd hard sacrifice and tragic consequenceOut of a Timeless barrier she must break,Penetrate with her thinking depths the Void’s monstrous hush,Look into the lonely eyes of immortal Death.— From Shri Aurobindo’s “Savitri” “What do you mean by ‘immortal death’?” a friend…