“Those who shouldn’t die”: Theater for reconciliation with death

Although it always focuses on what or when, the key is actually how. That interrogative adverb that remains buried and silent the few times when talking about something so normal, so everyday, like dying. Perhaps the question is how I want to die, not when I will die or what happens after death.

hollows they arrive in Escenas do Cambio to that. To dissect the relationship with death. His, at the time they were creating the work that will be presented this afternoon in Santiago (7:00 p.m.), was “very naive and very insecure.” those who should not die is halfway between performance and documentary, and mixes dramatic games with the testimony of thanatopractitioners and also activists who claim to regain sovereignty over their own death and condemn the practice of great lobbies undertakers.

By linking experiences, images and information, those who should not die Above all, it asks questions. Rescue from the grave how to cause a questioning of one’s own relationship with death. An opportunity to reconcile with her. “It provokes questions, certain thoughts and the possibility of talking about something that is not normally talked about, which has to do with what we want to do when we are gone, if we have thought about it, if we want to take responsibility for it, in what way… . “, explains Núria Corominas.

It happens regularly: after the piece, an internal discussion begins, but also a collective one, maybe in front of a very cold beer, about how everyone’s loved ones left, what kind of farewell was arranged and how we would like to be ourselves… How will I die, but when. More than anything. “There is much more familiarity with certain images and certain experiences. We talked about, what would you like the rest of us to do.” Kind of My life without me politically oriented and commodification of death.

The topic is serious, but serious topics most require to be treated with humor. And humor is also in Those who must not die, which raises this possible reconciliation with death beyond paternalism or condescension. To the extent that it also becomes a repulsion for people who have recently suffered a duel and their experience with the transfer of loved ones.

“These questions inevitably involve becoming aware that we are going to die,” Corominas recalls. It is perhaps the most certain thing in a person’s life. His end. Questions are being asked, what kind of send-off, what will the burial be like, will it be paid for? Because dying is expensive. A lots of. The market makes childbearing profitable through the fertility industry. And also deaths. Born, produce, die.

“These are companies listed on the Ibex 35,” Corominas points out about the large funeral industry. In addition, there are companies associated with insurance companies, which is big business. In the conversation, the political and economic spheres of such a normal act as it ceases to be begin to intertwine. Die. Transfer. “In the nineties, certain laws liberalized the sector. This price competitiveness did not always exist. Before, they were municipal, public. Privatization has arrived here as well, like everything else.

the one of death It is an “unbreakable business”, because the market niche is so wide that it reaches 100% of the population. Are there sustainable ways to die? “It does, but the law is made so that you buy some products.”