When I get asked what made my point of view, one story that pops into mind, unbidden, about an early time working with the police.

I had quite a visceral reaction to the article The Hour of our Death by Phillipe Aries (pages 40-48 of Death, Mourning, and Burial). I suppose its in the nature of reading the opinions of others, especially on a subject both as universal and dividing as death, that one will come across an opinion that one does not side with.

The way we fictionalize death is an extension of our thoughts on death. The attitude of death in our entertainment mediums reflect a snapshot in time of how out society and culture deals with death at that time, and the medium which can bring it to the mass market the fastest are comic books.