On the one hand, this event […] forces us to reflect on the greatest challenge to our conscious existence: death. Every death is as unique as life itself. But while we believe we can control our own lives, death always comes unbidden, usually unexpected, and often at the wrong time. Fairy tales and myths are full of life-prolonging fantasies. And the gods always have the last, inexorable word; the thread of life is never severed at a point that we humans deem to be the right one. In a way, death is the most radical proof against self-determination,
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KRIPPENDORFF, Ekkehart, 1996. Abraham Lincoln 1865 (mit Reflexion zu Itzhak Rabin, 4. November 1995). In: DEMANDT, Alexander (ed.), Das Attentat in der Geschichte. Köln: Böhlau. ISBN 978-3-412-16795-0. p. 233–250, here: p. 236–237.
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