LUCA DEL BALDO

Dying couple

Ando Gilardi , February 2010



There is a kind of heroism that is the most heroic of all even if we do not speak about it and we do not make monuments to heroes: it is the heroism of the woman who becomes the faithful companion of a man and then accompanies him to death. When I was a boy I read, and I was impressed, that in India this is called sati, and it is an old funeral practice, in which a widowed woman would either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion… Continue