Capturing Death – What One Photographer Learned on Assignment | Exposure

how do you want to die is relate the
question you know what is the quality of
your death what is the quality of a good
death it is the thing that we’re most
afraid of you’re going to die you will
be no more who whoever it is that you
believe you are will end
I think it’s that that loss of complete
loss of identity that terrifies people
the most one of the most powerful
experiences was being with the family
whose sons organs were made available
for transplantation and we gathered as
many people as we could find who had his
major organs as everyone gathered on the
road where this young man died the
family of this boy felt like he was
still alive in the bodies of those who
were surviving because of his great gift
and at one point this young man’s dad
put his head on the chest of the elder
gentleman who now carried his son’s
heart he said you hear that heart
beating tell me my son is not alive
and it just says so much about how we
don’t really know how to think about
life and death
we we won’t let go we can’t let go
that’s why some people want to be
cryopreserved
they want another go at it you know they
want to see if they’re essential me is
intact if they were ever to be revived
you know thawed and revived when these
folks who had near-death experiences
returned to their bodies and you know
got up off the AOR table or off the
floor or off the ground and and went
back into their lives they were
transformed forever so I don’t think
just because there isn’t a body of
research that supports and quantifies
that whatever happened in their brain
and heart doesn’t negate their the power
of what they have to say I’m not afraid
of dying sometime nothing dying or
relieve all right mom