Festival of dying: is your 'death literacy' lacking? by Fareed Kaviani

Lying in a satin-lined coffin or wearing a bondage hood may help you face up to your inevitable demiseNothing could evoke more gut-wrenching melancholy than Syrian musician Adnan Baraké playing the oud in a dimly lit boat shed at a festival of death. At least, that's what I'm thinking right up until the moment a foghorn bellows ominously from some distant ocean liner, swamping us entirely in a sombre aura of doom.It…

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