In contemporary society, life and death have moved from being centered around the family to being handled by professionals, from being something human to becoming something mechanized. People have few opportunities to encounter birth or death, and to plumb the mysteries of life. On the one hand, this unfamiliarity with the basic processes of life frequently results in a nameless fear.
進入現代社會，所有的生死，由「家族化」變成「專業化」，由人性化變成機械化，現代人再無機會接近生死，探索生命的奧秘，由於陌生，因此經常衍生出無名的恐怖。