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The Life of Death

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Marsha Onderstijn is a Dutch animator who studied at St. Joost Kunstacademie, a fine arts university in the Netherlands, specializing in 2D animation. In her hand-drawn piece, "Life of Death," Marsha follows a day with Death, who paradoxically learns to fall in love with life. This moving short animation paints Death as a warm character, interested in the goings on of the living, and even feeling remorse for accidentally killing a flower. Marsha invites the viewer to question any fear of death, with old age happily giving into the release and quiet of the next phase of existence. After all, what is death, but the next phase of life?

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Reflections (49)

patricia Burns

everything!!!!!!! THANK YOU Marsha

Mary

Death truly is the gateway into the next chapter…a release of this life…

Liz

This is seeping into my soul for expansion ~ amazing heartfelt sweetness of a story!Bless you.

evita

Death is NOT portrayed as a villain or something to be afraid of- the scene where the deer kisses the hand of death and finally embraces death was a poignant one. This film moved me very much.

Angelica

Beautiful illustration of the acceptance of death.

Lakshmi

Portrayal of Death as a compassionate and gentle force. He is just doing his duty. Heâ€™s not a villain but a force releasing all beings from their sorrows and pains. Leaves decaying is death. Flowers withering is also death. The birth and death are two sides of a coin. Beautifully portrayed.

Usha

Death our closest companion
Beautiful inspiring film

Judy

This is so beautiful. I wish we could see death more often in this gentle view.

trisha kammer

At the end of the video the deer and death hugged and came together just as life and death are connected. Nothing to fear, both are part of living, both are important and both hold our souls.

annie

the gentleness or death's empathic gaze and the inevitability of why not the deer? now? I wanted death to transition back into a newly born deer, but death brings up the deeply personal sense in me, of wanting things to be a certain way, and life and death is also an impersonal event reminding me that things are as they are

Elise Rymer

Why was the deer abandoned by the others?

Pam

Death is gentle and kind.
Accept it gracefully as the end of one life moving into another

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