Esteva, Beetlejuice

America as a consumer and dreamer society, is always looking forward to the up coming days. 
Americans constantly think about what new gadget or cool product is going to come out next, and when they not thinking of that, dances are they're probably trying to figure out how to accomplish their  dreams and goals. Maybe in ways of how to save up money to travel the world, buy the house of their dreams, or even how to get the all perfect american family.

    Nevertheless, they look to the future up to a certain point where not even the thought of death is close by. Tey're always too busy figuring out what comes next, believing there will always be an upcoming product or situation in their lives. They refuse to believe that some day their lives will come to an end, that they don't have an eternity to achieve their biggest wish, or live in a world where, for example, cars fly, and you can download any type of information to your brain with just one click. 

     In terms of Tim Burton's film "Beetlejuice", in many ways you can see reflected how americans refuse to think in the possibility of death. One of the main aspects that reflects how in the film they chose to ignore death is by looking at the characters. Even most of the characters are actually dead they continue to perform normal living actions, making it very hard to the viewers to actually acknowledge that they are completely lifeless. For instance, you can see how the "Underworld" or "World of the Death" works, practically, like any other normal office. There's people waiting, others working as assistants, the guy that passes around all the papers and the ones in charge of giving assistance to every case of dead people. 
    Furthermore, when the Maitlands die they continue with their lives normally, as they were alive. With the only exception that they can't get out of the house and many people are unable to see them. But, nonetheless, they continue to perform living-people actions, like sleeping, eating, and walking. 
At the end of the film they show how Lydia becomes like a daughter to them, acquiring one thing that they deeply wanted but couldn't have when they were alive. 
Suggesting that being dead should not be anyone's obstacle to fulfill their dreams, and obviously completely ignoring the fact that every person runs out of time at some point in their life.