Last Ashes And Flames Of My Own

Introduction

This space is for reflection on funerary art, mortuary rituals, and all things cremation in today's society. Here historians, anthropologists, philosophers, journalists, and experts in general share with us their knowledge on the subject, sponsored by Etternal Memory, a 2009-founded, Barcelona-based company dedicated to dignifying cremation art.

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As an example, take the name of this forum. A good friend of ours, a philologist of classical languages, has been the one who has given the name to our blog. And it is a beautiful story, a display of sensitivity and erudition.

The original verses inspired by this title belongs to Virgil's Aeneid. They are the following:

Iliaci cineres et flamma extreme meorum,

testor, in occasu our nec nec ullas cloth

uitauisse uices, Danaum et, si fata fuissent,

ut caderem meruisse manu.

That, in the English translation, sounds like this:

To you, Trojan ashes and final flames of my own,

I stand witness, I who have escaped neither arms

nor any perils of the Greeks in your destruction,

and if the fates had been such that I die,

I testify I had earned this by my own hand.

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By omitting the subject 'Ilión' in Aeneas' pitiable exhortation, we have cineres (ashes) to refer to my own as well. With which the title of this blog is:
 

CINERES ET FLAMMA EXTREMA MEORUM

Last Ashes And Flames Of My Own