Arcana - In Remembrance / Circumspection

These two songs are taken from the album "Raspail" (2008). A fantastic album with strong Dead Can Dance-influences ("Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun"). It's a kind of otherworldly new age tristesse.

The footage shows the art of Post Mortem Photography - taking photographs of the recently deceased. The pictures shown here for the most part are from the Victorian era. The deceased is integrated in a family photo, sometimes even manipulated to seem alive. Here's a Wiki article about this practice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography#united_kingdom

Before the question comes up: I do not see anything particularly offensive in that. What I find offensive is that we in modern society have pushed the fact of our impending deaths and the general finite nature of all of us away into the darkest recesses of our minds, never to be looked at again until we actually must cross that bridge.

Perhaps being reminded of our mortality by reintegrating death in our everyday lives would take away a lot of its horror, drag it from the doom and gloom corners of our minds to normality, demystify it and on top of it all reorder our priorities and make us reconsider our set of values and our actions? But that's just my opinion.

We're making plans for our lives for all kinds of eventualities, but that one thing - death - which is the only thing to happen under all and any circumstances, is constantly being ignored.

Link to HD version on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKOzAwM3us

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Lyrics-Videos-Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBxKqBbU1t0&list=PL_w2E6bk5bi2DwBQxrqLpLoyraCFGNYcx