Memento mori
One second, two seconds... An eternity passes until the next toll of the mourning bell. Solemn faces in juxtaposition to one another filled the room, dead silence everywhere. I looked around the room for the casket where the body of the deceased was to be housed but found none, neither did I see the bereaved family weeping at the cruel fate dealt to them by the universe. There were no last rites being held either, this was a funeral without any dead. I looked at them and asked, for what reason d