I'd say my outlook is informed by existentialism and by a pragmatic interpretation of science. Death is real, and it's the ultimate reminder that the humanist's anthropocentrism is vain or at best, madly visionary. We die to make room for more natural creations. One level or stage of the universe is buried to make room for an emergent order. The universe will die eons from now, as it evolves into something else, such as another order (perhaps a paranatural one). At least, that's what scientific theories indicate to me. If you're saying science itself is a western cult, I wonder what your alternative explanations of nature might be that conflict with the scientific consensus.