"More than just good beginnings, I prefer better endings"
Anonymus

It is said that God has placed eternity in the heart of every man. Without going too deep into the beliefs of anyone, something truly undeniable is that nobody likes the idea of an end.

It is a destination to which during a certain age we don’t even realize it exists. Over the years, and with knowledge of its existence even to our mind, it is a distant destination. Then we have the idea that indeed it will arrive and begin to imagine it, but always with the greatest optimism, where we only look at ourselves filled with success and, where failure is not an option.

We barely realize that the actions of our present reality paint the irremediable arrival, the way in which we’ll reach that destination. And then it’s very human to feel fear when facing before our eyes the ravine to which we were led through the path of life, and where we instinctively look back with nostalgia and see that what initially seemed so long has really passed through like the speed of a sigh. Our whole life pass before our eyes in a split second.

The music is a faithful reflection of who we are as human beings and the way we see the future. It is ineludible that in any musical genre and culture it is spoken about fate, death or the eternal love that survives any ending. The theme is so tied to music as the poet to the letters.

Music teaches us to live and die

Since the famous Chopin’s “Funeral March” to the most hidden song that addresses the topic, music has served to the relief of each individual. The known and unknown, dreams, fears and joys caused by death in humans, are faithfully reflected in the letters and musical notes produced by men until our times. Some curious info is that in the first sense developed by the fetus is hearing and when a person dies, hearing is the last sense lost. In few words, we perceive music before birth and after death. We are music.

The inner ear is fully developed since the middle of the pregnancy and the fetus can sense the heartbeat of the mother, intestinal noises during digestion and the passage of blood through the umbilical cord. In fact, it is known that inside the uterus there is a continuous rhythmic sound, similar to water flowing, mixed with the sound of air passing through the lungs of the mother and maternal heartbeat.

As the music teaches the fetus to live from the uterus, it also possesses the ability to teach a man to die, to overcome the sadness and the imminence of death, because as the saying goes ‘there’re also songs from pain ‘. The sounds constitute a circle of the existence of any common human being, his beggining, during his stay and, present also at his end.

The death has been a constant inspiration for various musicians and poets giving rise to extraordinary works. One of the most famous cases and applauded in history dates back to Abbey Road Studios on Sunday, March 2, 1973. On that date there would be a unique act in the voice of unrivaled and unsurpassed Clare Torry. The anecdote behind the realization of the legendary song ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ implies an entire musical culture icon in the world, an unusual and curious fact. Clare Torry would only be given the instruction to concentrate and think about death. The result we all know it, and to the recording, there was no more than adding or correcting:

The Great Gig In The Sky

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Beyond good and evil, of the mysteries death holds for humans, art is generated . Such as a rich mineral deposit, men have managed to extract from the depths of death beautiful artistic diamonds, unrepeatable jewelry reflecting our knowledge as human society and seeking to convince us that although it is a guest unwanted sooner or later will knock on our door and whether we like it or not, we have to prepare to receive it the best possible way.

Let music continue teaching the embryo to be born, teaching humanity to live in peace and teaching man to die.