Bizarre Quote by Michael Sheen

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

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

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

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be…

— Ram Dass

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

— Finn Wolfhard

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

— Holly Hunter

Society has a fascination with death.

— Sheryl Lee

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

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time,…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

— Ray Kurzweil

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow…

— Raymond Moody

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and…

— Alan Ball