I think it teaches us that our inner lives, our souls, know loss but the feelings of grief are often ignored or minimized in our culture.
We are afraid to recognize and vocalize how we feel in all manners of loss. We have very little ways to understand, process and publicize our mournings and sufferings. We’ve forgotten how to walk one another through the process of the cycles of life. We have few meaningful traditions, initiations or practices that help us produce anything positive from our pain. People are often alone and mask or medicate instead of transform their sufferings. We hide death from one another or we trivialize it through desensitizing it through overexposure or fantasizing with it in game, film or story.
This results in people being overly devastated or detached from healthy practices and people to help them evolve through the cycles of life.
