Verschenen: 15-08-2005
CHEAP + SOBER
 Nederlanders willen het vooral goedkoop en doen dat onder het mom van persoonlijk, zo samengevat luidt de kritiek van de Mexicaanse Lucyeileen Hernandez Barroso op de vaderlandse uitvaartcultuur. Is dat nu echt zo? Ze hoort het graag van u.
De Mexicaanse Lucyeileen Hernandez Barroso studeerde onlangs af aan de Hogeschool voor de Kunsten te Utrecht met een catalogus waarin ze de Nederlandse uitvaartcultuur op de hak neemt. De 'Die Dutch begrafeniscatalogus' oogt als een catalogus van de Gamma, Praxis of elke andere doe-het-zelf-zaak. Daarin aandacht voor herdenkingsdakpannen, herdenkingsbordjes, kisthandvaten, kistbekleding et cetera. Allemaal goedkoop en/of snel in elkaar te zetten.
Wat is Lucyeileen Hernandez Barroso opgevallen aan de Nederlandse uitvaartculuur? "Funerals in Holland are very formal and sober, while in Mexico they are more like a party. The purpose of this catalogues is to mock funerals and death in Holland. Die Dutch suggests a kind of "do it your self" funeral that is very personal but most important very cheap! This makes "Die Dutch" not only a brand but also a statement."
Over de Mexicaanse dood zegt ze; "People say that Mexicans have a special relationship with death and I agree. We know that we can't do anything about it, but what we can do is using our creativity and imagination to mock death with humour and irony. For Mexicans death has a lot of colour and also a happy face. I think funerals in Holland are to sober and too formal. In my opinion, it should be a happy celebration where families and friends can gather to farewell their relatives and accept death as a new beginning of life and not as an end. Dutch people find death very private and also personal. Most of them avoid the subject or simply feel uncomfortable to talk about it. The Dutch have made their deceased really 'dead' and unreachable. Dutch funerals have sober rituals, traditions and beliefs. This has created a large distance between the deceased and the living. Therefore, my suggestion is to consider other ways of dealing with the dead based on Native Mexican rituals."
Maar kun je de Mexicaanse cultuur zo maar overbrengen naar Nederland? Daarover zou Hernandez Barroso graag met anderen van gedachten willen wisselen. Dat kan via de mail: elucyeileen@hotmail.com.
De hele catalogus vindt u hier: Die Dutch.
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