THE SPANISH WAY OF DEATH
The more affluent modern societies become; and the more its members become obsessed with their own health and beauty, the more they seem to look upon death as an infliction of a cruel and uncaring God or Nature. But the Spanish seem to me to have a more natural acceptance of death than do we present-day British; although in my youth our attitudes to death were very similar to theirs. They, and most people of my generation, view death not as the ultimate insult of God, or Nature, but as an... Sign in to see full entry.