vidual causes, they die because there was an individual cause.' One is constantly concerned with avoiding death causing behaviour: smoking, eating monounsaturated fats or exposing ones skin to the sun. Giddens (1990) notes that high modernity is a future orientated society and thus seeks to amulet youthful characteristics that enable a prolonged life by staying as healthy as possible. 'Anxiety about health and the shape and appearance of the body, which is now excessively time consuming, leaves people no time to think about death it self' Bauman (1992). Here, one can see that old age is focussed on as the cause of death, not death it self, as death is a reminder of ones powerlessness, everyone dies, but not all people die of cancer, due to neglect of the body. Death is universal 'opening up the individual to the dread of personal meaningless.' Miller and Shelling (1993). This reduction of death to an individual event, with an individual cause is therefore one more representation of the modern seque
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