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Mexican traditions regarding the Day of the Death date back 3000 years and are celebrated in many forms throughout the country. The fact that Mexico City has decided to adapt to a more modern expression of this celebration influenced by a film, does not make it "commercial" . Please inform yourself better before you make sweeping judgments.
Death is deadly, but hope is heady. So although anxiety spoils breathing, insomnia spoils sleeping, myopia spoils seeing, caries spoil eating, paralysis spoils moving, sickness spoils loving, and death spoils living, dreams foil death by toiling for peace and health. To quote John Donne, "Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so".
Re: The Big Picture: Celebrating death
Mexican traditions regarding the Day of the Death date back 3000 years and are celebrated in many forms throughout the country. The fact that Mexico City has decided to adapt to a more modern expression of this celebration influenced by a film, does not make it "commercial" . Please inform yourself better before you make sweeping judgments.
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