Americans: Avoidence and Denying Death

Americans avoid death and dying because of its vagueness. No one really knows what happens after we pass on, but there are theories about what happens to the soul when the body is not longer living. Most of the time, when a close loved one dies, the first reaction is to move on with life. But what one doesn’t realize is the pain of the lost love one never really goes away. One has to learn to deal with the absence and continue on. In some cultures, they respect the dead more than we do and instead of burring them in a cemetery (which American and Europeans consider to be a freighting place because for the most part we are scared of the dead and their spirits), some cultures bury the close to their homes and in their back yards. Other, on special occasions, because they believe the dead still partake in the happenings of the living will set a place at the table for them for special occasions like weddings or celebrations.