Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death is a fearful thing.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.