Aspect Quote by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own…

— Anthony Kennedy

“We need to reform our funeral industry, introducing new practices that aren't so profit-oriented, and that do more to include the family. But we…

— Caitlin Doughty

It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even…

— Cormac McCarthy

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

— Hamilcar Barca

“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.”

— Richard J. Borden

The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

— Jean Garrigue

“The dead and the unborn are as much members of society as the living. To dishonour the dead is to reject the relation on…

— On Rousseau Roger Scruton

I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than…

— Tryon Edwards

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing…

— Tess Gerritsen

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to -…

— W. G. Sebald