Death, although its inevitable we dont want to believe its gonna happen. Often times we try not to think or talk about it because of its negative connotation and its association with sadness. In modern day society, Americans are so obsessed with the preservation of youth and beauty that they have become content with cleaving to this illusion that youth and life can last forever. For many americans in todays day and age the subject of death is labeled as dark and gloomy tragedy that causes pain to many. People are repelled by death and do not want to be reminded of it. Death is a dark symbol not to be stirred, not even touched, an obscenity to be avoided. Our cultural denial of death began when more and more people started dying in hospitals.