Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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.
When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.