In today's society our education and upbringing are mainly focused on developing our brains and our intelligence. In life, however, the most important things, like our souls, creativity, love, and pleasure, go far beyond the executive functions of the brain. And after everything we have learned, we know we still don't have any answers or clues to all of our significant questions of life. We live in fear of what the afterlife might bring.

We spend our valuable time in life in a consumer society which is attracted to power, money, television, and religion, while at the same time countries are at war and people are dying of starvation. Yet, we possess an irrepressible "Disney-hunger", a desire to live a great and successful life. This fear of the afterlife and the influence it has on our everyday life is what fascinates me. The dark side of life and its ending, which will present itself one time or another; with compliments of the chef!

Birgit Verwer 2011