"I don't approve of Woody Allen's view of death.
"In the nineteenth century, there was a very different view of death," she explains.
This view of death is certainly beguiling, but it also feels naggingly incomplete.
How do our views of death inform the way we live?
Almost any episode of the HBO series "Six Feet Under" offers a more intimate view of death.
By 1936 his mature style fully emerged in grim, close-up views of death such as Loyalist Soldier, Spain.
That is what fascinated me to explore a human being whose view of death is so different, who does something inexplicable".
His partner's death in 2007, and those of increasing numbers of friends, had left him "caved in" with grief, he said, and his own view of death was typically unsentimental.
Mozart wrote him a letter of consolation putting forward a view of death ("this best and truest friend of mankind") based on the teachings of Freemasonry, which he had embraced at the end of 1784.
Western works are morbidly preoccupied with the perishability of the body; Eastern works take a holistic, Buddhist view of death as a passage between states of being in nearly endless cycles of reincarnation.
