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The loss that leaves a void
2026-03-19 14:05:45 / IDE
The death of young people from cancer or cardiac arrest has long been experienced among us as a seasonal statistic, almost like a flu that passes from one body to another. However, this reality is not simply biological, it is deeply social and philosophical. Faced with the frequency of these losses, society seems to have become accustomed to them, accepting them less and less as shocks and more and more as ordinary parts of reality.
This trivialization and acceptance of the death of young people as normality comes at a high cost. It strips death of its moral weight and makes life seem easy, almost replaceable, when the departure of a young person no longer shocks anyone. In this way, society begins to lose sensitivity, experiencing loss not as a drama, but as an ordinary fact that no longer requires deep reflection.
The loss of a good friend and a prominent public figure in this context becomes even more difficult. Not only because he was a smart guy, a man who kept the relationship with the book alive in an era of algorithms and quick answers, but because he represented a form of resistance. To read, to reflect, to dare to address the problems of democracy in a time of consumption and in a society like ours is an act against the flow.
In a time when opinion often replaces knowledge and instant reaction replaces reflection, he chose the more difficult path, critical thinking. His thinking was not noisy, but consistent. He often did not seek quick attention, but deep understanding.
This is precisely what made him special not only as a friend, but as a voice that gave weight to words and seriousness to debate.
This occasion should make us understand that the death of good people is not simply an individual event, but a void that we continue to feel every day. When such people are no longer among us, they leave a space that is not simply filled with new words or voices. Their memory makes us stop, reflect, and deeply appreciate what it means to live with thought, courage, and honesty. It is their void that calls us not to forget, to preserve the values they represented, and to create space for true reflection in a world that continues to move without rest.
It can be cynically said that society quickly gets used to the absences, because the system does not stop for anyone. The press will continue, the public debate will flow, and new voices will emerge to fill the gaps. But this is not true continuity, it is only superficial replacement. This is because there are individuals who are not simply roles or functions, but bearers of thought, memory and meaning, and when they leave, what is lost is never recreated in the same form.
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