Much of the evil in the world, he believed, was a consequence of this need to deny death.

Once we led the world, perhaps still do, in the degree to which we denied death.

That is the message that those who know how to hear have heard: By denying life you may deny death and live forever!

As a child, he denies death; it is beyond his comprehension.

It's easy to deny death while you live.

There are better ways than work to deny death.

To deny death, he believed, was truly to deny life.

Above, the moon glowed, its serene face denying the battle and death that had taken place below.

At the end of the story, in the boat with his father, Nick denies death when he says he will never die.

For all this, most Californians, like the cancer patient denying death, seem apathetic.