Accept Quote by Alan Ball

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

— Naomi Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And…

— Alan Watts

“Dying is one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.' ‘For one thing, the culture we have does not make people…

— Mitch Albom

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people…

— Michael Sheen

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus…

— Edward Hirsch

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

— Elena Anaya

“There has never been a time in the history of the world when a culture has broken so completely with traditional methods of body…

— Caitlin Doughty

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What’s depressing is that our cultural fear of dying makes it worse than it should be. It’s actually a meaningful part of life,”

— Gail D. Storey

In the U.K. we can be quite uptight about death. Maybe we think if we don't make a noise, it might not see us.…

— Lou Sanders

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard…

— William Godwin

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle