Sidelines: Mortality

IN Indonesian, we use the phrase meninggal dunia, “to depart this world”: the body that is buried becomes the sign of loss. Separation with the world is such a radical separation that death is experienced not only as event. When we call it ‘Death’, it is as though it is a person, not a moment. Amir Hamzah even addressed death in his poem of desperation:

Come then, oh death

Release me from suffering

Again it is to y

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