There is a more graceful and dignified process of dying that can be set against the ticking timebomb image of death as some impending disaster to be avoided with the violent and desperate uptake of energy and resources, which on the contrary, holds the image of death as a natural and necessary aspect of existence. In this alternate conception, the dying being mellows and smoothly winks out, accepting the end, growing peaceful and reverent even to the surrounding earth being returned to, addressing benevolently past harms and releases one's energy and resources into the greater world that made one what one is.
This relationship tracks with a more intimate and accepting participation in the surrounding world, as opposed to viewing that world as an alien object to be conquered, a tendency seen in aristocratic persuasions in particular. Here the life-refusing translates also into a death refusal: witness the shiny and sterile CEOs suspended high above the earth and the teeming masses, refusing then to accept death and engaging in all sorts of creepy bids for immortality substances and technologies for example.
There are many ways to live, and death too is multifaceted.
