Preparing Is Self Love

What would life be like if the dead literally lived alongside you? In Eastern Indonesia, there’s a community of people who see death as a gradual, social process. Death is the most visible and remarkable aspect of life. Lasting from a few days to a few weeks, this community embraces the presence of someone who has died just as much as the living. Where we see death as an inevitable biological fate, they see it as a larger social genesis. Watch this video if you’re genuinely curious to see how a culture that sees death as a social genesis celebrates and embraces death as a part of life.