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The morality of mortality

The morality of mortality

Does our approach to Covid-19 signal that death is our last great cultural taboo?

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Melanie Phillips
Nov 04, 2020
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Michael Buerk, chairman, Moral Maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we took a more lateral look at the measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic by asking whether this reflected a cultural refusal to face the inevitability of death. Have we paid disproportionate attention to preventing deaths from Covid-19 to the detriment of others? Have we been, on…

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