The morality of mortality

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

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…