This paper is a contribution to the elaboration of the collective mourning for the death of Gino Strada. Working out a mourning means distilling awareness and values from the life work of a man who was radically anti-war. Being against war is an active and constant action: it is choosing life every day. It means founding a new ethic of otherness, raising one's gaze focused only on oneself to turn it with interest and care towards the world with all the otherness that inhabit it. It is an adhesion to creation as the supreme good, in the awareness of belonging to a unitary reality where internal and external belong and have equal value.