"If death is a part of life, there is a peculiar morbidity in the human attitude toward death: a morbidity which Freud recognized but did not connect with his theory of the death instinct.

"What distinguishes man from other animals, "says Unamuno, "is that in one form or another, he guards his dead. And from what does he so futilely protect them? The wretched consciousness shrinks from its own annihilation. The gorilla, the chimpanzee, the orang-utan, and their kind, must look upon man as a feeble and infirm animal, whose strange custom it is to store up his dead."

"It is not the consciousness of death but the flight from death that distinguishes men from animals. From the times of the earliest cave men, who kept their dead alive by dyeing the bones red and burying them near the family hearth, down to the Hollywood funeral cult, the flight from death has been the heart of all religion.

"Pyramids and skyscrapers, monuments more lasting than bronze, suggest how much of the world's "economic" activity  is really a flight from death. If death is a part of life, if there is a death instinct as well as a life (or sexual) instinct, man is in flight from his own death just as he is in flight from his own sexuality. If death is a part of life, man represses his own death just as he represses his own life."