Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser recently spoke about his wife’s death from cancer and the lack of palliative care in Brazil.
Andreas Kisser revealed in an interview with Loud TV that saying goodbye to his wife Patricia Perissinoto Kisser, who died of colon cancer in July 2022, accelerated Sepultura 's decision to go on a farewell tour. "Yes, certainly, definitely. [...] The process was very painful, very difficult, as you can imagine. It was an open experience in which I got to know myself, my family and new ways of talking about life because of dying.
Sepultura: Death of Kisser's wife contributed to farewell tour reconstruction aid
Sepultura: Death of Kisser's wife contributed to farewell tour
.The Sepultura musician also spoke about what it is like to die in Brazil. "Brazil is one of the worst places to die. Society forgets many people who go through the same problems with cancer and very difficult illnesses. I started this movement to inspire and stimulate people in Brazil to talk about dying - in many ways: about euthanasia, about suicide, about assisted suicide, about palliative care. We were privileged to be able to do that for my wife because of health insurance. But most people in Brazil don't have that.
So we started this movement, this campaign and a music festival that we have been doing for two years now. I just did the third edition to raise money for the people who provide palliative care in the favelas in Rio for the very poor people who are forgotten by society. I have learned that death is my greatest teacher. Because I learn so much about life because I respect finiteness. We cannot control it. We will all die. You will die. The camera will die. Every electronic device will give up the ghost. So it is what it is. We cannot choose it. But we can choose to live in the moment. The intensity of the present is much more intense when you respect finiteness."
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