Accordingly, resisting these secondary deaths requires more than demobilization. It calls for protecting archives and sites before the first shot (1954 Hague Convention on Cultural Property), funding schools and trauma care during displacement, and grounding peace in meticulous fact-finding—from local oral histories to war-crimes courts.
Finally, remembrance must be active rather than ornamental. Museums, literature, and rituals of mourning do not resurrect the fallen, but they prevent their erasure. In keeping Asimov’s warning in view, we choose whether the dead are allowed a future in our memory—and whether the living inherit more than ruins. [...]
