What is the meaning of the immense silence that surrounds the dead?

His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal.

A hairdresser talking with the Doctoresse about the bombing: - "I'm not afraid of it. The dead are better off than we are."- "But you don't know that."- "Yes, I do. I'm sure of it because not a single one of them has ever returned.

Whenever I receive death announcements, I consistently notice that a kind of emotion grips me and I feel astonished disbelief. It is as though the departed had passed a difficult examination and achieved something I had not believed him capable of.

Obitus vitae otium est (Death is life's rest).