Modern Mexican Death [] Joseph Toone

Published February 5, 2022

If you, like most Mexicans, believe this is the vaporous world and the real world is when you return to God it has a profound effect on how you experience this world.  For example, why wear a seat belt?  What is the worst that can happen?  You get to return to God that much sooner, hence, why driving in Mexico is a giant game of chicken.

I’ve written, toured and lectured frequently on the Mexican views of death but yesterday my adoptive Mexican Mom of over a decade passed so I got to view Mexican death a bit closer than I have here in the past.

My pal took a tumble breaking her hip and femur literally days before the virus came to town.  In my experience women that break their hips either go through surgery and rehab to recover nicely or it is the start of death’s invasion on their life.  For my pal it was neither and she spent the next two years bed-bound but alert, cheerful and fun loving.

Then one night I noticed her coloring was all wrong.  She was fine then but by morning death’s march had begun.

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