Instead of contemplating the mysteries of the great beyond with a solemn face and a heavy heart, Mexico stages a lavish fiesta on the Day of the Dead embracing death with a smile, bravado and a healthy dose of irony. You won’t find trick or treaters, witches, goblins or Halloween candy on El Dia de los Muertos. But there are chocolate coated candy skulls, clickety-clackety skeletons dangling on sticks, bread baked in the shape of bones and cardboard coffins that open to reveal a skeleton at a pull of a string.
Mexicans do not find it disquieting to munch on a chocolate skull. In fact, it’s a great joke for a child to be given a grinning skull with their name on it and helps them learn to deal with death at an early age.
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