We go so far as to make death look pretty. Death has become a topic that must be avoided. Other cultures do not have such a negative attitude toward it. People are allowed to die at home. The wake is held in the home.
Death is seen as part of life.
I think it is because their death is a reminder to us of our own. And this reminder, far from being a negative experience, has been a great source of conversion throughout the centuries. Recently an older man visited who was pursuing a religious vocation that he had been putting off for years. His brother's recent death. I wasn't dead.