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\"RichardThe Southbank Centre, London\u2019s art centre on the South Bank of the Thames, is holding a festival of death. The aim is \u201cto look death in the eye\u2026to confront mortality head-on through music, theatre, literature, and debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learning about death from New Orleans and Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I arrive on Friday afternoon a stream of children dressed in extraordinary colourful costumes, many of them featuring skeletons, are following a New Orleans jazz band to the graveyard (in this case the Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall). In the classic New Orleans funeral the band plays a slow, slow march to accompany the coffin to the graveyard. Once the coffin is underground the band begins to play fast jazz for the walk back to the city. There is respect for both the dead and the living.<\/p>\n

The children, organised by the inner city charity Kids Company (no unfashionable apostrophe), are also celebrating a Mexican Day of the Dead, when you go down to the graveyard and hold a party with your dead ancestors. A girl reads a poem she has written about her own funeral: \u201cit will be a sunny day\u2026there will be streamers and banners\u2026a big video screen with my picture on it\u2026people think I\u2019m strange, but I\u2019m not.\u201d There\u2019s a huge round of applause and whooping from the audience. Nobody here is sad, but it\u2019s fine to be sad.<\/p>\n

Coffins from Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ghanaians lead the world in building wonderful coffins\u2014and Sarah Murray, a journalist from the Financial Times<\/em> who has written a book on death rituals around the world, has already ordered hers. An exhibition includes coffins in the shapes of a mango, a white car, a Viking longship, a yellow Rolls Royce, a beer can, and a cocoa bean. A cocoa bean is popular in Ghana because so many people are cocoa farmers. You\u2019d be buried in the fetal position, beginning and ending in the same shape.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always fancied my dead body being made into pies, but maybe I should select a coffin. My equivalent of a cocoa bean would probably be a computer. I must ring Accra. I\u2019m fearful that there\u2019ll be a very long waiting list.<\/p>\n

Before I die I want to\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s BMJ<\/em> included a picture of the public art work \u201cBefore I die I want to\u2026,\u201d where people are invited to chalk in their own answers. It looks good and is attracting lots of attention. Answers include\u2026bring back Karl Marx, go to Mars, teach my dog to make a cup of tea, make sure I tell my mum I love her (very good advice), and have lived life to the full. Two people have written \u201close weight,\u201d a wish that may well be fulfilled but not perhaps in the way they imagine.<\/p>\n

Another art work has a circle for every birth and every death: over 12 hours 100 000 babies are born and 70 000 people die. The world is filling up.<\/p>\n

Music to die for<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first evening ends with a concert entitled \u201cMusic to die for,\u201d but it could have been \u201cMusic to die to,\u201d or even \u201cMusic to be cremated\/buried\/disposed of to.\u201d If you want a high class funeral you might want to keep the next few words as a reminder of possible music\u00a0for your funeral\u2014and one of the main messages from the whole festival is \u201cStart planning your funeral now\u2026it\u2019s never too early.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music was played by the BBC Concert Orchestra, which prides itself on its capacity to play funeral music, Lionel Bart, and the most avante garde music all in one week, conducted by Keith Lockhart, who selected the music and once conducted the Boston Pops with an audience of 10 million. He said that he thought that music was so important at funerals and\u00a0to help us confront death because it can express what is inexpressible in words. The concert also featured the Hertfordshire Chorus, around a hundred people who packed a tremendous punch.<\/p>\n

Everybody was in black, and the concert began with Saint-Saens\u2019s \u201cDanse macabre<\/em>,\u201d a very familiar piece that represents the medieval dance of death when skeletons danced with kings, emperors, bishops, saints, and peasants, reminding us that death is the great leveler. I wished it could have been a touch more macabre. After two movements from Mozart\u2019s \u201cRequiem<\/em>\u201d we had \u201cDer Abschied<\/em>\u201d from Mahler\u2019s \u201cDas Lied von der Erde<\/em>,\u201d written after he\u2019d been sacked from his conducting job, his 4 year old daughter had died, and he\u2019d been diagnosed with a heart condition that he was told would kill him in two years. It\u2019s surely one of the finest depictions of dying.<\/p>\n

After the interval and in complete darkness we heard Purcell\u2019s \u201cMarch in C minor<\/em>,\u201d which was written for Queen Mary\u2019s funeral in 1695 and was then played at Purcell\u2019s own funeral in the same year. There were words in this conference, something I\u2019m generally against,\u00a0 but one of the bass players shared his thoughts on death, pointing out that \u201cit would be a bit of a break from the daily routine\u2026and that there is no need to book death in your diary as it will take care of itself.\u201d He suggested as well that we might \u201clike to take a peek at our own funeral to see if the girl from accounts we\u2019d always fancied but never been brave enough to say so to, would come and even cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then into \u201cThe Swan of Tuonela<\/em>\u201d by Sibelius, an exquisite piece, followed by John Taverner\u2019s \u201cSong for Athene<\/em>,\u201d a haunting choral piece that was played at Princess Diana\u2019s funeral, a time when Britain experienced a \u201cLatin American carnival of grief.\u201d After Barber\u2019s \u201cAdagio for Strings<\/em>,\u201d \u201cthe saddest piece of music written,\u201d and \u201cIn paradisum<\/em>\u201d from Faure\u2019s Requiem, \u201ca lullaby to death,\u201d we ended with \u201cLibera me<\/em>\u201d from Verdi\u2019s \u201cRequiem<\/em>,\u201d which was also played at Princess Diana\u2019s funeral. If you want to go out with a bang this is the piece for you.<\/p>\n

Filled up with the music of death, I thought about what I\u2019d like for my own funeral. I\u2019ll have to have a movement from one of Bach\u2019s \u201cCello suites\u201d as I\u2019ve listened to them every week for 15 years. I must have Coltrane playing \u201cOut of this world<\/em>,\u201d and I\u2019m tempted by Miles Davis playing \u201cSummertime<\/em>\u201d and a version of \u201cSt James Infirmary Blues<\/em>,\u201d perhaps the one by the White Stripes.<\/p>\n

I tweeted my choice, and my brother responded saying: \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be for you to choose, you won\u2019t be there. We should choose.\u201d I responded \u201cSurely the corpse is the start of the show,\u201d and he came back \u201cJust like a Cliff Richard concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

I went home feeling very good, looking forward to more death tomorrow.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re tempted to know more about the Festival of death follow me on Twitter (Richard56) and search for the hashtag #deathfest.<\/p>\n

RS was the editor of the <\/em>BMJ until 2004 and is director of the United Health Group’s chronic disease initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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