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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag
Death, Religious, Dying
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Susan Sontag
Death, Dying, Unbearable

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag
Death, Sex, Pornography
"The Pornographic Imagination" (1967)

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Susan Sontag
Death, Memorial, Dying

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