“I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenImportantFactsLastsDiesSkyDyingOur ChildrenRefuseYour ChildrenSerenityLast WordsCeremony Author:Christian Boltanski
“I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.” DyingMachinesFingersWhy NotWhy Now Author:Christian Boltanski
“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.” TryingDoeDoneWholeShowsFightingMemoriesImpossibleDyingFilledWhole LifePreservesStopping Author:Christian Boltanski
