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Why do dying people never shed tears?

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Max Frisch
Death, People, Tears
Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

Max Frisch
Death, Attitude, Wine

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Max Frisch
Death, Technology, Body
Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

Max Frisch
Death, Mistake, Technology

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