| Sascha (E-Mail nur eingeloggt Sichtbar) am 13.06.2020 19:07 Uhr |
So drückt man auf die Tränendrüse. Es ist sensationell, wie er es
immer schafft diese freundliche positive Stimmlage zu behalten.
"In March 2013, comedian and Podcast host Duncan Trussell broadcast one of
the most touching episodes of his show, a conversation with his mother,
Deneen Fendig, who was close to death after a long battle with cancer. Fendig,
clearly an influence on Trussell’s rambunctiously curious outlook on life,
is lucid and uplifting as she talks to her son about the experience of
actively dying. In this excerpt, she describes a deepening feeling of
'holding' that is pulling her towards 'something vast', and which 'includes
everything'.
Over 36 minutes, Clancy-Duncan and his mother discuss his birth, his life,
and her impending death with a combination of compassion and frankness
that’s almost hard to take, fourth wall be damned. Behind them, as they
wander about the ship, a staff of sentient teddy bears perform a series
of scientific studies in interpersonal connection and the inevitability
of death. About a third of the way into the episode, Clancy-Duncan, having
aged years in the short span of the conversation, tucks his now-elderly
mother down into a bed, where she dies. Shortly after, he becomes pregnant,
and gives birth to her, and their conversation picks right back up at where
they left off. Trussell tells Polygon the scene is the representation of a
cycle he became aware of after becoming a parent.
The combination of the sheer emotional power of a real conversation between
a dying mother and her grieving son with the richness of metaphor,
synthesizing an abstract, impressionistic fantasy with the fleeting beauty
found amid the cruelties of reality, is almost overwhelming. It’s an effort
almost sure to make all of its viewers cry while also asking them to learn:
that your heart has to be broken for it to really be open, that we have to
accept that we will die but that we don’t have to like it, and that even in
death no one can truly be lost. Some things transcend even the inevitable."
