Vigor Mortis

'Glitters with ideas and insights' Guardian In the twentieth century, our deaf ear to death mirrored the Victorian blind eye to sex. But death is finally out of the closet. This is a provocative account of how and why we have tamed the thing we most fear. But as death becomes the focus of a new permissiveness, does it signify healthy liberation? Are 'click' and 'buy' coffin websites and mourning television indicative of progress or a waning sensibility?