With rampant fights and wars and strict capital punishments, death was very visible and accepted natural process to life, and people learned from an early age to prepare for their own demise, making the dying process less mysterious and accepted. However, this bleak outlook on life was cushioned by the general accepted religious belief that the pain and suffering endured on Earth will be rewarded in Heaven, and this life was ultimately a quest for salvation. .
As religious values become less standard are no longer a strong influence and life expectancy rises thanks to modern conveniences, pain and suffering has lost meaning, and the quest for salvation has slowly evolved into a blasphemous quest to "cheat- God's plans for our lives and take the reins into our own hands. Death has now become a symbol of failure "a failure to retain control, and a failure in our pursuit of brilliance. As observed by Kubler-Ross, "in simple terms, in our unconscious mind we can only be killed; it is inconceivable to die of a natural cause or of old age."" Not wanting to be continuously reminded of this failure, the dying are isolated into nursing homes equipped with careless staff and the dead are buried in cemeteries in the most unfashionable part of town "away from the population for the sake of money and fear. .
In fact, death has become so progressively invisible, death no longer seems natural and has transformed into a subject so taboo that so much unnecessary controversy has developed surrounding whether or not children should be exposed to death-related activities including funerals. However, it is because of this effort that the purpose of this protection is defeated, as the child becomes more fearful when their questions are unanswered. Parents eagerly assume that their children are too young to understand or handle the truth of their future and zealously use a combination of euphemisms and lies to cushion the blow.