Culture
Covid Has Revealed Just How Many Americans Are Terrified Of Their Own Mortality
The pandemic has brought an uncomfortable topic to the forefront of our consciousness, a topic that many would prefer to avoid rather than confront head-on: dying.
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
Our frontline workers and affected families have been close, uncomfortably so, to death every day for months now. It runs rampant in the chirons of our media, yet it’s treated with fear or an attitude of disdain or both. Most of us when asked would probably truthfully admit that we’re made uncomfortable by death. But Covid has done a favor of sorts to our cultural attitude around this topic, in that we’ve realized our obsession with death as a result of Covid reveals just how uncomfortable we are with mortality.