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I love how caring, and how motherly Death is shown in this. A very beautiful way to see death.

I love that death was portrayed as sentimental, patient, caring and a woman. Not often does the grim come that way.

6:30 “Why did we never speak?” “I don’t know” Damn...

I love how gentle Death is. She's soft spoken and cradles the baby as if taking her own. She's a protector. A guardian. A Mother

he was so hammered that even his ghost was drunk

Have you ever been so drunk, that you got up after car crush but forgot your body and then Death had to look for your drunk ethernal ass?

I like the interpretations of Death not being some creepy and all horrifying skeletor wielding scythe. Where death is merely a person in a robe who knows more then you could ever know and gives but sadly knows that you can’t stay on the earth and must do what they must do.

This one really caught me by surprise. My sister passed a few weeks prior to me viewing this for a class assignment. Really helped me not only deal with losing my sister but also helped me accept mortality in the most profound way I have yet.

He couldn't see life until he was dead...

"Don't drop me." "I won't" *drops him 5 seconds later*

Every so often this animation crosses my mind, and I feel the urge to watch it once again

I saw this animation as a teenager many years ago. It has stuck with me for so long and been a fundamental piece of media in my long journey of accepting death... It softens my heart everytime I see it

The fox: *sees death* Excuse me, could you give me directions to-- *death disappears* Fox: ok

I'm confused and very sad with a slight sense of comfort.

Imagine your last word being 'kebab'...

I watched this for the first time seven years ago, when I was 16. What I’ve noticed is that I am much more scared of death than I was back then. 16 years olds don’t typically have a lot of experience with death and feel invincible. It’s bittersweet. Never forgot this animation in all those seven years

Death is easily one of my favorite characters in the human mythology, and this is how I've always imagined it. Death is a being meant to bring a life to a safe closure, not just whip it straight to heaven or hell. all lives deserve closure, if an afterlife exists, even those who were seen as evil. Death should be a peaceful thing, a breaking from our imperfect world, into a resting place. I think that this animation portrays that beautifully.

I think our main fear in death is forgetting

"Mother. I am born." That cracked me up ngl

Watching again for the who knows how many times, when he says "we can just tell them" she goes "tell who?" As if there isn't any higher power she works for. Fascinating

Fox: "what the fuck did I just see tonight"

This is one of those films that i'll remember for the rest of my life.

This is probably the best short film I've ever watched. I can't process the amount of visual creativity, delicateness, and general love that went into this.

Are you going to kill me ? No ur already dead

Please drink responsibly.

they pictured death as a woman, that is the most beautiful animation idea i have ever seen

*I like how Death is sympathetic* and give him all the time he needs to see his past and to let go of it... A very breathtaking short film!! 🎭

The ending where she covers him up then fades herself away always hits me.

This short film had such a simple, but beautiful and colorful animation. I haven't really seen Death portrayed in such a caring, warm-hearted and motherly light before. It just goes to show that there can be so many ways to see one concept.

I was curious what symbolises fox, which appeared few times during the animation. Now it all makes sense: "In China, fox animal symbolism revolved around the afterlife. Lore has it that a fox sighting was thought to be a signal from the spirits of the deceased".

it hits me so hard when: "why did we never speak?" "i don't know". i'm gonna leave this obscured and i won't explain it, figure it out for yourselves, trust me, it's the best feeling when you feel/figure it out on your own. this is phenomenal! thank you!

I think this film changed my perception of death forever. This was so beautiful, calm and comforting. I also really love the art style. Amazing

This is such a beautiful animation. Its atmosphere is so strangely heartwarming. The way they portrayed Death is so gentle. This really shows how beautiful life can be, so we should cherish it while it lasts. Thank you for this. Im very troubled right now, but this reminds me of all the beauties we have in this world. So even though things may seem rough, there is always a light within the darkness that surrounds you.

so damn drunk that his spirit is drunk

I remember someone once said that we shouldn't portray death as a bad guy. After all, he/she's there to escort us to the other side. Can you imagine if death didn't exist? Having to navigate your own way there alone would be scary AF.

I come back to this video every year when I'm feeling melancholic

Death is kind, fear is not.

my thanks to UKposts for recommending this to me.

8 years later and this amazing work of art pops on my algorithm once again…I’m so glad

Damn homie was so drunk that his ghost was drunk...

Baby: "Don't drop me." Death: "I won't." -drops him a couple seconds later

That fox has seen some shit...

Nearly 7 years later, and I still remember this masterpiece. I still remember and feel the emotions I had the first time I saw this animation. Truly art that has stuck with me the entire time

I like the idea (and reality) of falling to sleep/death from being so full of want that it drains all you energy. It’s a sense of satisfaction stemming from an immense sense of yearning, a strange paradoxical phenomenon that occurs in reality.

You can never appreciate the significance of a thing without its contrast. Death gives Life meaning.

We want to stay alive like a child wants to stay awake, and like how a child try's to fight sleep we try to fight death and both fights will always be inevitably lost so the best thing they can do is embrace what they fight for there own good

Don't mind me scribbling here. Around the time this animation was uploaded, I had lost someone in an accident. If I had seen this then, I would have cried a lot. But tonight, I cried equally hard. I remembered all the countless times I had engaged in futile efforts to understand Afterlife from both scientific and religious points of view; reading people's stories on near death experiences and out of body experiences, reading books about time machines, reading Ian Stevenson's works on rebirth, past life hypnosis and what not. Nothing calmed me or consoled me. A decade later, I am in a better place than that now even though I do think of that person every now and then. Thank you for the animation. And please, to anyone reading this. Please be careful on the streets. Even at midnight. If you're not sober, don't walk or drive all alone. Take someone with you. Let them drive. If that's not possible and you are left on your own, then just don't drink in the first place.

I love how death is porttrayed as a motherly figure trying to give you everything you never got

Man: "more" Death: "Now" Life as the ultimate fantasy, the sole object of desire.

I feel like this shows a reason in which there might be (or are) ghosts. Instead of just dying he wants to see more. Therefore he cant pass on. That is why there is a string connected to him. He's attached to reality. Death keeps saying "now", because he can choose to pass on at anytime. But wont, The reason death takes him when he falls asleep, is because he's finally Resting In Peace.

“show me many things, so that i remember.” fuck. thats such a powerful line.

Today is my first time watching this video. I say this because I know I will come back to it many times in life. When Death turned into the mother and she was holding him in the palm of her hand, it touched a sensitive string in my heart. It's been a year since my mother was battling cancer. Many other women in town fell sick around the same time and many of them died of cancer, including my bestfriend's mom, who is also my mom's bestfriend. When I found myself face to face with my mother's mortality and started realizing and seeing how one day she will be really gone for good from my life, it broke my heart to the point where I don't want to admit it to myself. I realize how I was connected to my mother even before I was even a person, before I could breathe air, and before I knew anything about anything, and we were connected through love. Most of the time I forget that it was love that connected us. I mean, I don't forget but the stress of everyday life overwhelms me and disconnects me from me at times. I can feel the shadow of death roaming around us. I am afraid of losing someone precious to death. I don't want it to happen. I drive myself crazy thinking that if I do everything right, I can delay death. I burst into tears when Death became the mother although I don't understand how Death turns to be the mother.

Life is a beautidul memory . The soul is an undying child that needs love and nuturing . Beautiful film , teaching us the importance of living Every moment .

For those that don't know, a coda is a point in music where a section repeats itself and starts again.

It's been 5 years since I first saw this I see it once or twice per year and Every time I see this I discover something new thank you for helping me grow.

I don’t remember when I first watched this. Maybe years, but I keep coming back from time to time and seldom share it with friends. Not everyone deserves to watch it.

wow, I wish Death is good and caring like this.

I learnt one thing from watching this,that is humans never stop asking for "more".

Years have passed I watched this for the first time, and every time I watch again is that weird, strong, and warm feeling. I love this with all my heart.

This animation is so well made, it's warm and caring I love it, got tears on my eyes, Beautiful!

"Don't drop me." "I won't." "Cool, can I see the ocean?" "Sure." *Drops from hundreds of feet in the sky.*

What portrays here, in my opinion, is about Death being kind and merciful and motherly, it depicts that, when you died, Death is there to take care of you, let you see what you wanted, either what would the future of our world looks like or what it's like in the past until it's time for Death to leads you to the afterlife, or the court of heaven and hell or some other way your soul would go.

This is wild for real This comes from a very deep mind /imagination And for it to be put into an animation, that's just straight up mind blowing

Death is like a soft, loving hug to those that are suffering.

This reminds me of Spirited Away.

I think I just saw the most beautiful animation on earth?

I first found this video in 2016 when my boyfriend died. I've since lost 6 more friends (I went to a wake Monday night), and every time I come back to this video and send it to other people. I like the idea that death is not a cold, efficient being doing its job, but rather is patient and welcoming and kind. Like a mother welcoming its child home after a long hard day, enveloped by a blanket of peace. This is how I'd like to picture it. And thst the manner of death is forgotten by the person.

4:50 I don’t believe in reincarnation but this is how I imagine dying sounds like. That sound, then complete dark silence. Silence. Then, an explosion of light, colours, sounds, tastes, images, swirling, dancing, vibrating, pulsating, liquid streams smashing against each other, shards crystallising. A gigantic blue number 8 squeezed like an hourglass, changing shape from 8 into 3 then 1 then 0, melting and dripping red and white on petals. A green number 7 growing thorns and leaves around this flower bud which turns into a beating heart. Coarse sand flowing through the child’s fingers, melting into glass, sipping into new hourglasses that synchronise the births of worlds. The sounds of millions of creatures rising like smoke of incense smelling of flowers drifting through space like a chorus. The child tumbles through space. *Mum?* The sweet voice smiles *I’m here. I’ve got you* The child enters the blackness holding onto the umbilical cord of Mum’s voice on which the worlds he made now spin and sing and shine like pearls on a string. *Mum? I made this for you* He rests in Mum’s arms with his eyes wide open beholding Beauty. *I love you* *I love you, too*

I just cried my eyes out and I'm not entirely sure why. That was strikingly beautiful.

I honestly wanted to kill myself at the time I found this video. It really made me stop and realize... I'm so young. There's so much beauty I have yet to experience... I've seen the ugliest the world has to offer, but I want to see something wonderful... The sunrise over the mountains. The tender sighs of my lover as I kiss his neck. The mewls of a newborn baby. I have existed, but I have yet to live. Months later now, I'm here again and I'm in tears just the same. It's such an ugly world we live in... we must find our brushes and paint our own visions of beauty upon this tattered canvas.

How do humans come up with those otherworldly and pure animations...

I feel that this animation Is so unic, delicated and gentle. Since the way that death Is showed, to all the pretty solitude that the man, boy and baby get to feel deeply. We get close to him by feeling the world trought him skin. Then, the urge of protecting and being protected Is something very well treated. Death want to protect the life of that man by bringing him to her, dying was like reborning, because death was too gentle to let It become a painfull moment. I cried a little watching, sometimes I get back to rewatch It, so I get that feeling again of how powerful art Is when I feel a lonely teardrop on my cheek. Thanks for this piece, and congrats for the work. :)

A lovely story about a soul that regrets its wasted life and regrets all the things that it did not see and experience; all the things that it could have learned. I so much enjoyed this short movie.

"What now?" "That's up to you." > Ends up chasing him for wanting to keep living. "Don't drop me." > Proceeds to drop him in the river. **sigh**

It's almost 4:30 am, I was not emotionally ready for this.

What a beautiful piece of art... Thank you so much for this precious 9 minutes . Thank you...

Well, this is Changing my view on death. I like this better than your soul just Sanders. Death Takes you to see all the great things in the world, all that you could ever want. But you must Rest. This Eternal Rest. A Rest in the sky. You become the Powerball. And the rain are Tears. Tears of mother death. Tears of sadness for the end, but Tears of joy for a new beginning. Life and death are an Endless circle. Edit: After a while, this idea has Evolved a bit. I have some new ideas. Death is so motherly in this she is now Mother Death. In her arms, you can finally Rest. If there is a Mother Death, why not a Father Life? He Referee convince you to stay alive forever, so he can make it terrible for you. So there is a choice that you must make, Mother or Father. But it is not so easy to tell who is who, Cause they both wear a mask. Father has the Mask Of Ego and Mother has the Mask Of Soul. The each show you who you Think you are, and who you REALLY are respectively. Better choosed wisely.

This feels like a poem and I love it

That's the best thing I've seen lately... We unfortunately knew the importance of time too late

The way they've captured and illustrated the peaceful and patient presence of Death is perfect❤

I've always thought of death as something to fear, something to stay oblivious to, but this has shined a light that has entirely changed my prospective on death. This video is absolutely stunning.

I think it's fascinating to see how people portray death, because you will never know what happens after you die until you experience it. Like, you could experience a whole big compilation of memories or go see the things you never saw, or maybe you just die and that's that.

I've been watching this for years. The impact is so profound.

The way death leaves buy closing the cloak is outstanding.

for some reason i assumed Death would be a man, I didn't expect to hear a women's voice to come from something so ominous

This touched my soul and heart idk why...

He fell so gracefully.

The music, the emotions... that's Ghibli's level at this point! Almost got tears at the end, really well done!

First, you overestimate life. It is too long, there are so many things to know, adventures to experience and feelings to discover. After some time you underestimate life. Life is too short, you want more of this precious thing. But actually, life is only borrowed. Death lends it to life and takes it again. And death would like to have it back safely.

Absolutely gorgeous animation and story. I can't imagine how much soul and work went into this but it paid off. What you've created is something truly incredible

That was such a dramatic yet somewhat elegant death.

He didn't want to go into The Void, thinking it could trick Death into showing him more and more, thus prolonging his stay, but Death knew the human soul is like a newborn child and it'll easily be subdued and tired by all the knowledge and information... Death was gentle with him, but cruel and cold at the same time, unmoved in its ways.

These where the fastest 9 Minutes ever experienced

I don't think I have enough words to describe how much I love this piece of art

3:18 death must have some short legs

"Don't drop me" "I wouldn't" *drops him* lmao

I love that the soul doesn't look like the body at all, which is the case in most potrayals of it's appearance

This was SO powerful! Made me cry several times throughout the day thinking of it. The interaction towards the end with him and his mum, or the entity that was like a mum made think that I hope my mum is there at this point in my passing. Also, how he was a newborn really captured that fresh love a mother has for it's child right after birth. This video really brought out a lot of stuff I had no idea was there, buried underneath.

Wow... man this is deep, this short film goes through humans' most essential worries, our connection with nature and other humans, how we waste our life getting drunk and not enjoying what is meant to be enjoyed, like fresh air or clear skies, our need to speak and communicate with the ones we love, our desire for more time... This thing is gonna have me thinking for a while