Death – Christian Raimo

“Hello, is it the essential?”
“Yes, good morning”
“Pleasure, I’m death”
“The death?”
“Yes, the lady with the scythe. Every now and then I also take the hammer, but that’s another story “
“It’s a joke?”
“Seh, maybe. We’d have more fun. Instead, it’s a business call “
“In what sense do you excuse me?”
“I’m taking a tour of the various media, to make framework agreements. I thought of an offer tailored to your editorial line “
“About death?”
“Well, I don’t know if you’ve seen how these last few years have gone. The pandemic, the war, the massacres in the Mediterranean. For me it is a political mission, even if it is not understood. I try to warn humans of what their choices entail. I don’t think I’ll surprise you if I tell you that the next few years will be worse “
“Worst?”
“Yes, there is climate change that will kill them in droves, among the rising waters, the tsunamis, the exodus from tropical countries. I don’t feel like talking about apocalypse, which is a technical word, but in short, there will be a large dose of global disasters “
“And what can we do?”
“To avoid them? At this point I would say nothing. There was that option of fighting capitalism and the exploitation of the planet, but it seems to me that they are alternatives that are not even considered now. What was that sentence like? It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Imagine how I was there when I first heard it. So I would say that what we can do is understand how to prepare ourselves, also from the point of view of information. I would propose an agreement “
“A deal?”
“I would give you some sneak peeks on some of these deaths. There are some that you can’t even imagine “
“It scares me so”
“Better be ready. For example, he knows all the diseases that will come with climate change, I mean tropical ones, malaria, apart from the increase in allergies, strokes. I always hope that when you arrive at a certain point you will reverse course “
“So what awaits us?”
“Look, in order to eliminate intensive farming, we have invented an epidemic that is transmitted by farting. If you eat too much meat, you brown and kill others. I don’t know if it will help “
“It seems terrible to me”
“You will come up with some way to put a patch on it. The containment panties, the anti-darkening filters. Some capitalists will make money “
“It depresses me so”
“And tell me. All these deaths for nothing. At least don’t make me feel guilty and spend eternity saying: but why didn’t I tell you before! ”