Life is short. [1]  Celebrate while you can and remember those who have left us for a better place.

From--Indo-Hispanic Folk Art Traditions II/ [2]written and illustrated by Bobbi Salinas:

In the pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-America, Especially the Nahua (Toltec, Aztec, Tlaxcaltec, Chichimec, Tepanec, and others from the Valley of Mexico), life was seen as a dream.  Only in dying did a human being truly awake.  For a people who lived with human suffering, death offered a release from daily living and the restrictions imposed by other cultures.  Death was not feared because it was inevitable.

Entre las culturas prehispanicas de Mesoamerica, especialmente la nahua (toteca, azteca, tlaxcalteca, chichimeca, tecpaneca, y otras de Valle de Mexico), la vida era vista como un sueno.  Solamente a morir el ser humano realmente despertaba, Para la gente que vivia con sufrimiento, la muerte ofrecia un escape de las diarias restricciones de diario existir, impuestas por otras culturas.  A la muerte no se le temia porque era inevitable.

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