My husband and I had a date night tonight and saw the new Mr. Rogers biopic "Its a Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood" - a quick warning: spoilers may be present in the remainder of this post.
In the movie, Mr. Rogers is portrayed as being with a family at a moment when no-one wants to speak about the elephant in the room - death. I am not direct quoting here, but in the movie, the line goes something along the following lines:
The thing about talking about death is, that to be human, we must die. And anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable is manageable.
The last part comes directly from an easily google-able actual Mr. Rogers quote, but the direct link to the subject of death is not easily located. It could be that the filmmakers wanted to use this great sentiment and made it work for the plot, but in any case, I think it is quite enlightened...
The thing about talking about death is that to be human, we must die. And anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable is manageable.
Talking about death should be manageable.
Won't you be my neighbour?
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