To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
There is no future for a people who deny their past.
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.