““The dead are lonelier than the living ever can be. They can't hear each other through coffins and the earth…When I die I'd like to be buried in a mass grave. In a mass grave I wouldn't be afraid of the dark, and I'd be lonely only because my grandson will be missing me, the way I miss Grandpa Slavko now.””
The quote reflects on the profound isolation of death, suggesting that the dead are cut off from each other's presence, and expresses a desire for communal burial to lessen personal fear and loneliness.
In simple terms: Death isolates, mass burial eases fear.
Shared death mitigates existential dread.
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