One must go further: culture itself, culture in general, is essentially, before anything, even a priori, the culture of death ... There is no culture without a cult of ancestors, a ritualization of mourning and sacrifice, institutional places and modes of burial, even if they are only for the ashes of incineration ... Because every culture entails a treatise or treatment of death, each of them treats the end according to a different partition. (Jacques Derrida, Aporias, p. 43)