Jennifer Horgan: Our obsession with youth is a way of denying death, but we should embrace it

There are differences in attitudes to aging and dying between us and our ancestors, and also between generations. Jennifer Horgan asks, is it a sign of a growing death anxiety?

Death has become a sober, serious, adult-only affair. File picture

Did you ever enter a contest to see who could lift a corpse? No? Not recently?

Maybe you wrestled over a corpse then, or played cards, handing the deceased their own hand. No? Not that one either.