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Once, I saw a series of portraits of the deceased hanging on the worship hall; an indescribable feeling comes up to my mind. It looks like this series of portraits are harmony, and it doesn’t give people any feelings of death. The display of the portraits is from right to left; from the friend’s great great-grandfather to grandfather. Looking at these similar faces, it is not hard to tell that they all have the same blood relation. If we look at the first portrait, then jump to the fifth one, there are no connection between each other. It’s like the rainbow theory that you can’t see the obvious dividing line. It has an interesting connection; also, it has an irreversible affection that you have to only view and admire it one by one. In the era of time, the portrait of the deceased used to be a full length photo. What’s interesting is, people only had to take the photo of their faces, and the body could be drawn up. That “body” doesn’t belong to anyone; you never knew who had used the same body before. The body belongs to everyone. Death is a common and fearful thing that people couldn’t have imagined. However, it happens every day, and it could be the closest people around us. It could be he or she, or even ourselves. Facing at such a natural life cycle truth, what do people fear for? What do people anxious for? Or the basis reason why people avoid the situation “death” is because it is the only thing that we can’t regret or start over. Researchers ponder how to express and to cut to the chase of the concept “death” via photography creation or writing to make death a usual thing to everyone. Since it is a part of the life cycle that is unavoidable, we should face the fear that “death” creates with a more holistic mind, to change our attitude towards death also to respect the truth of death practically.
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