Death Is a Sacrament

By Subhana Barzaghi

Book Id: WPLBN0000708228
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Death Is a Sacrament
Author:	Subhana Barzaghi
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
Collections:	Buddhist Literature Collection, BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
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Publisher:	Buddhanet: Buddhist Information and Education Network


Citation APA MLA Chicago Subhana Barzaghi, B. S. (n.d.). Death Is a Sacrament. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

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Excerpt: Immediately we start to speak about death in our culture, it conjures up all kinds of images of something morbid or depressing or tragic or painful, Our Western culture is particularly good at hiding death and making it something alien. We immediately cover up a corpse and lock it behind closed doors, cover it over with a sterile sheet, in some ways denying death's relevance to life. There is such a great fear of extinction that we treat death as something taboo. We live with this anxiety about death, as if it is a denial of our rights to continual and perpetual self-determination.