Satanis: The Devil's Mass1970

[referring to a collection of macabre art objects in the church]

Anton LaVey:
These, ah, do not imply in any way that we're the least bit eager to die or have any sort of Freudian death wish. On the contrary, these are constant reminders that death is around the corner and death doesn't present a better, ah, than what we have now world. Death presents a negation of many of the pleasures of the flesh and certainly most of them. And, ah, so we feel that the more things that can remind us of this, the more inspired we are to live each day to the fullest.