Facing The Death. Questioning the Western society's handling.

For some weeks I'm watching now the partly horrible videos recorded during the Syrian uprising. Kids were tortured to death, students died through head shots caused by huge caliber ammunition and two days ago I was confronted with images showing two martyrs rolled over by a tank. I've noticed that the Syrians like all other predominant Muslim societies haven't any fear of contact with the physical consequences of death despite of their shock, consternation and sorrow. What seems for them natural is in our eyes not imaginable, not bearable. Many people here I talked about what I've seen stopped the discussion or turned away. It is their personal decision, I cannot force them into watching or imagining something they don't want. I came to the conclusion that both the optical and the physical confrontation with death is almost blanked out in the Christian-rooted secular Western society. The sudden loss of a beloved relative or a good friend is for everyone hard to bear. But in our culture the death isn't longer a real part of our life: We mourn while others take care of the dead's body. Until the moment of the funeral everything is prepared through pathologists and morticians, the only contact we have with the corpse is facing the coffin. In some cases it might be half-opened and we have a last look at the deceased's face. Could it be possible that we've lost the relation to the physical aspect of death? For the Muslim society the body of a deceased belongs to the family. The same way all relatives were from the day of birth present they are on the day of death. The circle is closed. Here, in the Western society, the circle seems to be closed. We bid farewell only in our memories and thoughts delegating the responsibility for the mortal remains to someone professional, someone the deceased is a stranger to. In this way death became more and more ethereal, amorphous in our minds and in our souls. But the corpus belongs as well to the whole image of a human being. Why don't we care in all for the deceased? We consist of spirit, soul and body. Postponing the last one out of our minds leads me to the question if we aren't able of granting the deceased the necessary respect even because we do not want to take care of the corpse. We aren't able to look at. We aren't able to touch. Even though the body is a part of the human being we lost. And wouldn't it be possibly the deceased's will to end his life voyage together with his loved ones in all three stages? Provocative? Yes. I don't want to hurt someone's personal believes, but I'm asking myself if it is the right thing to block the physical presence of death out of the minds as we do. We've interrupted the circle of life through our decision of letting do instead of doing it ourselves. We have lost our natural ability of facing the death. I hope one day we'll find it back.