By Katherine Bennett, Catholic Herald - With life reduced to the material, and purpose replaced with comfort, one conclusion is to avoid the subject altogether. If there can be no value in suffering, or meaning in death, why would anyone want to talk about it, let alone see it?... Why would anyone choose to give their life for a stranger as St Maximillian Kolbe did, choose to give birth to a disabled child, or to stay alive following a fatal diagnosis? The culture of death is the inevitable consequence of a society absent from Christ.