At Funeral Parlors the Cosmetics Lie Thick

We try to avoid death. At funeral parlors the cosmetics lie thick. We apply euphemisms to every aspect of the finality of death. In modernity, ‘death has replaced sex as the subject too obscene for polite society’. – Thomas Oden

Our neglect of death signals our neglect of life. We don’t really live because we don’t really think about dying.