It seems that people are either in a mode of denial or acceptance, which are, in some ways, opposite extremes. But they both have the effect of stopping you from doing anything if you’re in denial and say this is not a problem, or if you accept it and say there’s nothing you can do about it, both of these are sort of passive modes. And what I think we need is a much more active mode. Instead of being in denial or acceptance, I would like us to be spending a lot more time-fighting death. There are people who say that death is natural to which I think the response always has to be that there is nothing more natural for us than to fight death. — Peter Thiel
Accept a situation, deny it or find an alternative course of action.