Life And Death Analysis

Life then death, life after death, or life and death, and so on. These phrases represent the varying understandings throughout the world’s cultures of the relationship between life and death and its relationship to living creatures. Throughout, it is understood that all organisms spend time on earth in a specific form and after some time that form will wear away and the physical form of that being will die--the body will no longer function and can return to the earth and nutrients from which it came. However, the disagreement lies in whether or not there is a literal end to that organism’s existence, or its being, its spirit. Both a culture’s understanding of this relationship and historic influences, cause variations of cultural attitudes toward life and death.
A difference of opinion is apparent between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. Death has no

They stay up until morning playing music, talking, laughing and waiting for any sign from the loved ones they’re honoring that night. They wait because they believe, although the body has died, the spirit of their loved ones lives on and Dia de los Muertos is the one night a year that the veil between the living and the “dead” falls away and there can be communication between. According to the film, a common saying mentions that this is not the time for tears, the road from heaven can’t be too slippery for the dead to return on. Dia de los Muertos greatly influences Mexico’s cultural perception of death. Unlike the U.S.A., Mexico confronts death and relates it to the current time. People who celebrate Dia de los Muertos have a acknowledge and respond to death rather than neglect it. The neglection of acknowledging death in the present that occurs in the U.S.A. sets up a pattern of grief characterized by the initial pain of loss and then more pain brought on by confusion, avoidance and