Lindsey Pritchett - Life and Death

In my senior seminar class, our topic is masculinity, we were discussing diunitologic in terms of African American culture. Diunitologic is a thought process where the community believes in both instead of one OR the other. An example was life and death. When someone dies, they are both living and dead, not merely dead. This idea plagued me all semester: how is this possible? To be both living and dead is a thought that sounds highly illogical, directly contradicting the concept of realism and consistency. A binary such as life/ death, thinking of it terms of both, is paradoxical. Yet, it makes sense. When someone dies, the memories you have of them live on in you. In that, they remain alive so long as they are remembered. Even if the body is dead, the person that existed is immortalized in the memories that loved ones share.