A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan SontagOne set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
Susan SontagIt is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt
Susan Sontag