La Bloga: Mariela Rubio’s Un Lapso de Silencio

“Dia de los Muertos remembers dead loved ones but most gente prefer to be the observer than the observee. Today, meet Mariela Rubio, a woman who seemed a candidate for an untimely altar herself and whose story of illness and recovery celebrates the fact she and her mother can set up altars together and remember when Mariela lay virtually dead.

When she was 22, Mariela Rubio fell ill in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Negligent medical care sent the young woman’s life into a tailspin, starting with a six-month coma. Doctors confirmed their diagnosis: the patient doesn’t talk, doesn’t move, cannot feed herself and is probably blind. Her mother prayed that her child be restored while friends thought it would be best for the child to die and end her suffering.”

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