The problem is not that science and medicine wish to avoid finding cures; it is that they are too strongly motivated by an irrational, unconscious need to cure death to be fully motivated by the lesser task of preventing and curing disease in order to delay their patients’ – and their own – inevitable ends. The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.
问题不是科学和医学有意回避对治愈方法的探寻；而是它们被一种非理性的、治愈死亡的无意识需要过分驱动。这种动力完全来自于次要的预防和治愈疾病的任务。这项任务的目的只是为了延缓病人不可避免的生命终结，并由此延缓科学家们自身不可避免的死亡。这些由科学家和医生们在过去几十年里做出的承诺在某种程度上使对死亡的否认制度化了。