Who's that girl?
Hello and welcome to Memento Mori!
It warms my heart to welcome you on this page.
My name is Célestine and I’m nearly attending the 30th milestone.
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Coming to this website you get to see the beautiful island of Es Vedra in Ibiza with me looking at it. This is not just a beautiful scenery, it is also the place where my father is resting. At the end of 2013 he unexpectedly passed away and in the summer of 2014 we took his ashes for one last trip. For me, this place, Es Vedra, is extra special.
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When the unexpected happened, I felt a lot of love in different ways I never would have imagined. It was heartwarming to feel that people cared. Even though there was a lot of uncertainty about what could be said (a lot of things were also simply never expressed), I did feel people’s concern for me and my family. But as life continues, we tend to forget. The survivors as well tend to forget and go on with life. I continued and had the mindset that I didn’t want to lose my years of youth, so I lived and explored. I also ran away, and I came along in what they call ‘postponed’ mourning.
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Gieving grief a space
With the 10th anniversary of the loss of my father, a lot of feelings came back. And I felt sad about how I felt. I had the feeling that I couldn’t talk about it, because by this time ‘I would have been over it’, no? I also felt sad that the loving community of people at the moment of the loss were now gone. In the next weeks, months or years, no one really dared ask me about the loss or how I felt and still feel about it. I can’t blame them; there’s just so much uncertainty about this topic.
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Loss, grief, and death are topics we don’t really tend to talk about. When we are in touch with it, it’s dark, morbid and scary. We think of overpriced funeral homes and services, cold cemeteries, skulls and sadness. I was looking for a long time how I can make a change here and that’s how Memento Mori got started.
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Welcome!