"'Disgraceful? But what do you mean? They're being death-conditioned. And I tell you,' she warned him truculently, 'if I have anymore of your interference with their conditioning, I'll send for the porters and have you thrown out'" (Huxely 208).
Consumer culture is to be able to be not affected by death, to do this children are conditioned. To be un-affected by death has some very good attributes as well as its defects. The positives of society being un-affected by death means a few things. Firstly, they can keep working and their lives will not stop because of someones death. Furthermore, the citizens of the World State do not have to be in any pain when their friends are dead; while they may miss their company there will be no heartbreak, this is because the people are conditioned by the their culture to not be affected, or hurt. However, the sentimentality that lies in life and the loss of the ones closest to people is a beautiful yet tragic feeling. The meaning of life is somewhat downsized when you make it so that death is nothing, and is just a part of life. All the while, death is just another cycle in life, but there is meaning in it because death is the birth of change. While some people are not affected by another's death the people closest to the one who had died, now have a change in their life that may not be avoided.
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