The Importance of Religion in Dealing With Death

I liked to think the English were not just the English but I think everyone was pretty good with it simply because it was a daily reality for so many people. My grandmother who was born in 1901 had 12 brothers and sisters not all of them made it into adulthood. Because of that they had a language, a way of speaking about it, they were confronted by it, they had to deal with it. But what we've done is kind of medicalise it so when people use to die at home now it's very often in a hospital or perhaps in a hospice if you're lucky. It is exported beyond the horizon of our everyday experience. And it seems to be one about secularism