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"Contemporary Western civilization unfortunately has become one in which death is culturally denied and defied much to the detriment of those who participate in it. Although there has been a good deal of interest in death related subjects recently, for far too many people, death remains something to be learned about by studying rather than through the process of living and growing, older. The very fact that there are many books, articles, journals, and even courses on the subject of death attests to the fundamental condition of denial in our present social setting. That so many people must go out of and even against the mainstream of social activities and concerns to learn about, discuss, and reflect upon death illustrates but one of the harmful consequences of social denial. Talk about death, a cart of life and an inevitable fate for each of us, is, more often than not, regarded as being morbid, a sign of illness (more likely social abnormality than a physical disease) rather than as one of the many activities entered into by healthy people who wish to integrate, in a balanced way, all of life's experiences into their own. Therefore, society's general interest in not wishing to know about or talk about death makes those who do social rebels, if not outright outcasts."

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