"birth,senility,illness and death" is a matter of common phenomena among people.but owing to the fear of these phenomena make it become a forbidden topic among people.Both in east and west all have the taboo to avoid or unwilling to speak out these words,mainly because the psychologic factor,because they all are afraid of death.like people saying cancer,the speaker while speaking this kind of disease,he will concern about himself whether might be infected,on the other hand,he also has to think about the audience,so they usually use "the big C""long illness" instead of "cancer".for english,they will use "go to heaven ;be gone to a better world; to go to another world ; troubles be over now ;to depart ;to be gone ;to pay one’s dabt to nature ; to breathe one’s last ",and so on.
and death is even more forbidden in Chinese.Pople usually really don't want to mention the word,because they are afraid of death.In modern Chinese language will use "past","gone","pass away","leave" etc.to instead.but,Chinese language has many kinds of way of saying death and divides into different level,identity,and ages.In the Ancient Chinese emperor's death,people usually called demise,youth's death called perished,war hero will call a glorious sacrifice,and bad people death called expiration.Death is a most sadness thing to human,contemporary communists advocate revolution,dedicate to the society,depend on the Marx's theory,pursuing the concept of communism.Some people called death as to have a report to Marx,it shows as a comunist's nobal sentiment of loyal to his ideal,face death with no regrets.Because pople afraid of death,and hope they can keep longevity and health,so when on the social interaction,they will try to aviod use the word about death.it indicates a bailment of best wish and fulfills with a special feeling to the dead people. "birth,senility,illness and death" is a matter of common phenomena among people.but owing to the fear of these phenomena make it become a forbidden topic among people.Both in east and west all have the taboo to avoid or unwilling to speak out these words,mainly because the psychologic factor,because they all are afraid of death.like people saying cancer,the speaker while speaking this kind of disease,he will concern about himself whether might be infected,on the other hand,he also has to think about the audience,so they usually use "the big C""long illness" instead of "cancer".for english,they will use "go to heaven ;be gone to a better world; to go to another world ; troubles be over now ;to depart ;to be gone ;to pay one’s dabt to nature ; to breathe one’s last ",and so on.
and death is even more forbidden in Chinese.Pople usually really don't want to mention the word,because they are afraid of death.In modern Chinese language will use "past","gone","pass away","leave" etc.to instead.but,Chinese language has many kinds of way of saying death and divides into different level,identity,and ages.In the Ancient Chinese emperor's death,people usually called demise,youth's death called perished,war hero will call a glorious sacrifice,and bad people death called expiration.Death is a most sadness thing to human,contemporary communists advocate revolution,dedicate to the society,depend on the Marx's theory,pursuing the concept of communism.Some people called death as to have a report to Marx,it shows as a comunist's nobal sentiment of loyal to his ideal,face death with no regrets.Because pople afraid of death,and hope they can keep longevity and health,so when on the social interaction,they will try to aviod use the word about death.it indicates a bailment of best wish and fulfills with a special feeling to the dead people.