> culture ... is in denial about death. We hide it away,... Karl Ove Knausgaard starts one of his books off by talking about this exact thing. He made an inter

> culture ... is in denial about death. We hide it away,... Karl Ove Knausgaard starts one of his books off by talking about this exact thing. He made an interesting observation about how we seem to try to keep death at or below ground level (a morgue will never be on the second floor) - literally but also figuratively.