I’m not able to fear death. We will turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.” Interview, 2005
Yes [death had become a taboo]. Today people want to avoid the subject and hide the deaths that happen around them. It is as if the world were a hotel where the dead usually disappear at night, without any guest being able to notice their presence. While movies and television address death, they do not touch the fundamental point of finitude. The deaths are false, the good guys get shot and come back to life. It’s another way to treating death as unreal. Interview, 2005
Death is the inventor of God. Jose Saramago, 2009
In order to protect the physical hygiene of the living, we usually bury the dead. Jose Saramago, All the Names.
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