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For the living, does death embody a rupture in the fabric of existence, or, on the contrary, does it allow one to reconnect with life? Is mourning therefore a protective withdrawal or a total openness to the silence it confronts us with? From then on, mourning manifests itself sometimes as an isolation of the ego fighting the loss, sometimes as a solitude expressing the deepest state of adherence to reality, that is to say to the silence that surrounds us.