Santi Maratea after the death of Ezra: “All the consolations of death do not comfort”

After a broken heart was posted in the morning and silenced, we learned through the account of “Todos por Ezra” that the 3-year-old boy who was undergoing treatment to overcome cancer, died. 

After a few hours, Santi Maratea, who was the prepulsor of the collection that made it possible for Ezra to start his treatment in the United States, recorded a series of stories to tell the sad news and make some reflaxions about it. 

Visibly moved and unable to find the words he began by saying: “Well people, Ezra passed away, I don’t know how to communicate this, I think I’m never going to learn it. I will never know how to communicate this type of news. The first thing, and the only important thing is to send all my love, my support, my hugs to Ezra’s family, who I know and admire very much. It breaks my soul that they are going through this,” he said with a lot of pain. 

After not being able to hold back the tears, he made a reflection and used a phrase that he usually applies to these circumstances. “The same phrase always comes to mind that says: ‘When you feel the nearness of death, you turn your eyes to your interior and find nothing but banality. Because the living differ from the dead, and we are unbearably banal.” And that’s what happens. It goes out of the sense to the thing, it’s like, I don’t know, all the consolations of death, I know them. But they do not comfort. Sometimes they kind of don’t reach the explanations,” he acknowledged.

“I learned with Fede, and the passing of Fede unfortunately, and Fede’s family, that when you give your all, defeat doesn’t taste like defeat and that you can’t control the outcome,” he reflected. If you give everything you have, in a way that is difficult to explain, that has its reward and really defeat does not taste like defeat, it tastes very bitter, but not like a real defeat. And I think Ezra’s family gave it their all, too. I saw it, you saw it too,” he said, breaking again. That’s why I always say that the people I help, I admire them a lot, because they are people who face shit with a lot of dignity, and I bank them strong, I admire them posta.”

Original source in Spanish

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