Journalists and newspapers are dedicated to telling stories. When we come across a great story, we salivate because we imagine the enthusiastic reaction of the readers. This week, we have managed to collect two extraordinary stories in EL PERIÓDICO. One from another newspaper of Prensa Ibérica, ‘La Nueva España’. This is a married couple from Oviedo who, after 52 years of marriage, died just 45 minutes apart. They were buried in a joint funeral that ended up being a tribute to a full life. Death would be less difficult to accept if we could decide these kinds of details: dying saving ourselves the suffering of seeing those we love the most leave. When fiction has reflected the possibility of an eternal existence, in the final result the desire to decide the moment of death has always won more than the will to banish that possibility forever. It will be that finite beings are capable of imagining eternity but not managing it.
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The other, collected by Elisenda Colell. This is the story of Albert Aixalà, a municipal worker from Barcelona who was abandoned in the same circumstances as the baby found on a street in Sants on Tuesday. Aixalà revealed it on Twitter when he heard the news and decided to explain it in detail in EL PERIÓDICO. The circumstances were practically the same and the place was very close. Aixalà also explains that he was later adopted and reveals how he found out about his origins and how he has swallowed it. He is impressed by the serenity with which he explains it and the empathy towards his biological mother, which distances him from any righteous attitude. The vital challenge is not to imagine an existence without problems but to have tools and an environment that allow us to fit and overcome them.
Death, life. Its beginning and its end mark the existence of humans. And in those moments the great stories that we like to tell take place. With respect, with distance but without losing the common human condition.