The world of cinema is in mourning. The World of Culture is in mourning. The world of all of us who love both is mourning the death of a great, Mario Monicelli of fighting that ended his personal heroic World War, the Great War who wanted to immortalize and honor in a wonderful film, a of the many who made, but what is most dear to me and that always excites me and touches me every time I see him again, each time seeing him, I find in it a message that is always new and the previous time I had been hiding. In Jewish tradition, when a loved one dies, a sign of mourning take off your shoes. The
because a friend of mine explained to me jew who came to see me when my father died:
"In ancient times, have the shoes was a sign of wealth and when a loved one dies suddenly all become poorer.".
Here, I believe that we should all take off our shoes as a sign of mourning because we have all become poorer for the lack of a person who has left us, but fortunately for us has left us His Works, His testimony, His inheritance, which makes us all a little less poor.
Mario Monicelli committed suicide, throwing himself down from a window of the S. Giovanni in Rome, where he was hospitalized because of having an "incurable disease" as stated in the obituary.
did not wait for the inevitable death, were to succeed in kidnap him in their own time, not since the Black Lady, lurking behind the door, you chose the right moment to take it away.
He wanted him to decide when and how he wanted him to decide how to die, having decided how to live. In
I heard an interview some time ago said clearly, I remember perfectly the words: "I've always decided how to live, I want to decide how to die." When life is no longer worth living is right to give up. "He did
.
True to his thought, when he felt his life was no longer worth living, has terminated voluntarily and choice, adding your name to that of many others who consciously and in full awareness have made the same choice, freedom, and I think I am convinced.
I stated and I repeat, consciously and with full knowledge , because, just as a psychiatrist lot daily against the suicide of patients with depression, more frequently, but also from other diseases, such attempt or sometimes enact a suicide, determined not by a free and informed choice, but rather from the unspeakable suffering caused by disease, suffering But it is, and this makes dramatic suicide, treatable, curable, delete, temporary way.
Quite different is the case of those who do not suffer from these mental illnesses that cloud the consciousness, but in full mental integrity, and decides that the time has come for him to take leave of the world
because his life is not worth lived.
because his life is not worth lived.
E ', in my humble opinion, the ultimate act of freedom given to man that is not free to choose to be born, at least it is free to choose to die.
If we did not read in school, read or reread the wonderful pages of the "Dialogues" of Seneca, or "Dialogues" of Plato, or the Memories "by Marco Aurelio, where much much much better than I am capable , They shy and inequitable student, expressed these concepts of human freedom.
Mario Monicelli was a gift from fate, chance, freedom to implement this determination. I consider it a blessing, a gift of life.
to others less fortunate, so lucky this was denied by the disease, or other negative circumstances.
selfishly I hope and I pray with all my heart that if I were in similar circumstances, this good fortune I was denied.
Farewell Mario Monicelli, I thank you for this last lesson of life, dying as you have wanted to, you left us. Thanks.
Domenico Mazzullo
0 comments:
Post a Comment