Analysis Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of…

— Cicely Saunders

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in…

— Roland Barthes

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic…

— Stanislav Grof

“Above all, there has never been a community that did not cohabit with its dead. But today, socially, the dead are no more. They…

— Barbara Duden

The living can assist the imagination of the dead...

— William Butler Yeats

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

— Frank Herbert

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the dead lingers around, the living person suffers in the end

— Anonymous

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is…

— Theodor Adorno

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those…

— Anna Godbersen

“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of society and…

— Tim Seeley