2024
How often do you think of your loved ones dying? Are you grieving right now? Do you feel like the world around you sees your mourning?
Here, in a personal essay on what death has come to mean to me, I Karolina Rusak pick up a bundle of my memories regarding passings in my family and for the first time in my life criticize what mourning has become in 21st century Europe.
Remnants of traditions, in some places more celebrated than others, are getting overshadowed by a youth orientation and a growing fear of death coming from lack of understanding and education. Over the last 100 years the contact with a deceased human body has been completely lost under the fall pretense of care and sanitation, while the funerary business branch has expanded under the steady growth of capitalism.
Here you can find the full 2024 Interactive/Media/Design Bachelor thesis:
An Intermission by Karolina Rusak