Claro que del largo artículo de Peter Schjeldahl sobre el arte de morir me llamaron más aspectos. Aquí comparto tres puntos que quizá para mí no son demasiado llegadores pero son compartibles. Un fragmento que no incluyo es su interacción con Susan Sontag. • Life doesn’t go on. It goes nowhere except away. Death goes on. Going on is what death does for a living. The secret to surviving in the universe is to be dead. • Twice I’ve been to Oaxaca during the Day of the Dead, when the departed members of families have their favorite food, drinks, and perhaps cigarettes set out for them at meals. It’s understood that, at the table, the dead consume the immaterial goodness of these things. The families visit them overnight in graveyards. I was deeply moved by the implication that death may be a major life event, such as birth, confirmation, and marriage, but that it doesn’t mean you’re gone. We spare the dead a bit of the life in us. I shuddered suddenly during my second walk amon