Our entertainment is both a cultural instigator and a cultural indicator. Several recent box office successes glorify vengeance and violence. Meanwhile, some of the biggest selling recordings have been about death and dying. The song, eulogizing another rapper who was recently gunned down, went double platinum, selling several million copies. No wonder young people think about death and dying more than anything else - even more than about sex, according to some surveys.
Society is bombarded with the hopeless inevitability of life's end.
Pick up a newspaper and you'll read about it. Turn the channel and you'll hear about it on television. It's playing at movie theaters. It's on the Internet. You can read books about it.