“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;” (Ecclesiastes 3:2)
Perhaps the most important factor shaping the world’s response to the Covid-19 virus has been our attitude to death and dying. If we’re ever going to establish a mature society, we will have to develop a mature attitude to our own mortality … and learn to discuss it openly, as the natural end to all lives. As my own initial contribution to that debate, I’m republishing a blog post I wrote 10 years ago on a short-lived social media site called Uncivilisation.
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