The Great Unspoken: Death
7 min readOct 16, 2019
These days we humans have a very strange relationship with death.
Death used to be an everyday part of life. Child mortality rates were very high and adult mortality rates were not much less. Most people died before the age of forty and a great many of those perished before even reaching puberty. Bacterial infections and viruses and everyday mishaps all carried people off, while the rest went on with their lives and…