After returning to Taiwan in 1984, the thing I found most intolerable were those huge funeral processions in the streets, obstructing traffic and creating a terrible amount of noise. This way of pulling death out into public in order to give it importance, with concern only for one's own rank and household, without regard for the rights and interests of others, shows that we still do not truly have dignified death.
我在一九八四年回台灣時，最不能忍受的就是街頭上一長列的殯葬隊伍，阻礙交通、大聲喧譁，這種把死亡拉到世俗人間來衡量，只管自家排場，而不論他人權益的現象，顯示我們並未真正尊重死亡。