" In many societies there was the attempt to live with illness rather than to hide from it. It can be argued, of course, that such cultures did not shrink from illness and death because they could not; and that if they had been as technologically advanced as our own society they would have abhorred disease and death just as we. While there may be merit to this argument, it is more likely that many premodern societies' attitudes toward death and disease were an expression of an organic way of being, a manner of living-in-the-world where acceptance was not a function of helplessness but an expression of a deep understanding of the world. "

― Connie Zweig , Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature