A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn't forget how quickly other cultural prejudices--racism, sexism, homophobia--have begun to topple in the recent past. It is high time death had its own moment of truth.
Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
culture, culture-critique, death