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Shot on 4 April 2026, the first clip rolling at 11.01pm; cut from 26:16 of tape, 2 raw clips at 1920×1080.
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0:00AWhat do you think are some of the shortcomings about our culture around grief here in America?
0:03BOur shortcomings about grief?
0:06AYeah.
0:06BYeah, I think that we just kind of -- we don’t acknowledge it. Like, I really wish, like, as a culture, like, we had something like Día de los Muertos, where you celebrate the coming back of your lost loved ones and you build shrines. Even, like, Asian cultures, Japan, they build shrines. You remember them actively. But we don’t really do that. We have cemeteries, but if you want to be cremated, then And you don’t get to go somewhere to honor your loved one. It’s just, you just do it every day, try to find something in daily life to remember them by. And sometimes that’s not enough. And it would be nice to have a day, to have a moment that is dedicated to, like, honoring their memory specifically, instead of just on a day-to-day, get hit with that grief out of nowhere and have to cope with it.
0:06BWhere, Like, our society, I think the biggest thing, like, when I lost my grandfather, it was just like, it was a beautiful sunny day and the world just kept moving even though my world was ending. And it was really hard. So I think that is kind of where we, we come up short, where it feels very isolating. Everything just keeps moving. No one stops to grieve. There’s no time to.
1:30AWe’re not given time to process. Yeah.
1:35BAnd there’s just no -- we just don’t have anything in our culture to honor the dead.
1:41AYeah. Yeah. Or to dignify the grief, you might say.
1:43BYeah.
1:44AThat’s what I would say.
1:45BThat’s -- yeah, I think that’s a good way to put it. Like, I mean, I would want to be cremated. I know he wants to be cremated. I think my, like, recent -- anyone that has passed recently has been cremated. So there’s nowhere to go to honor them. So you have to find that place. But then it’s like, am I -- like, is it cultural appropriation if I build a shrine? Or if I try to celebrate their death on like Halloween because that’s Día de los Muertos. So it’s, you know, there’s just nothing to do that, to have that release as a community. And it’s very frustrating. Yeah.
