A tube of Bergman

Ingmar Bergman died yesterday and journalists have been hunting down everyone who has ever worked with or fucked him. His relation to women is famous/notorious. It is amazing to hear all the women he worked with explaining what he did for them... - I am so grateful to have known him.... - He saw me and made me see myself... One actress confessed to greedy thoughts. - All the things I never asked him... etc. etc.

The Swiss-born psychiatrist Helen Kübler-Ross has designed a model to explain the human reaction to death in five stages...

1. Denial : The initial stage: "It can't be happening."
2. Anger : "Why ME? It's not fair?!" (either referring to God, oneself, or anybody perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
3. Bargaining : "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
4. Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
5. Acceptance : "It's going to be OK."

(from wikipedia)

I don't know if the Kübler-Ross model can explain anything about how a human collective reacts to death but I have feeling that the Swedish reaction to Bergmans death primarily is a greedy one... sort of similar to the human reaction to the death of a tube of toothpaste. - Oh no you don't! There is still some useful stuff in there...