The whole 'end' thing I suppose. In order to cope with death, many people seem to turn it into a kind of ghastly exception. Every culture has, for example, a 'Grim Reaper' character who personifies death. He's not always black or skeletal, and he's not always HE - some has a female 'collector of souls'. The good old funeral march...
Dont get me wrong Kali, I see humour in the attitudes I mentioned but these are not the ones that people feel when death touches them.
I would hate people crying over a patch of ground that has no relevance to me at all...