Mortician Says ‘Do Not Be Afraid of Dead Bodies’ — Inside Edition, 2019, 3:47 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqLg8jr18iQ

Do you think zombies stigmatize dead bodies? The media portrays death in highly exaggerated ways, often in ways that increase our fear surrounding dead bodies. This is partly amplified because we have outsourced death care— it’s done by paid professionals, not in the home as it was done for thousands of years, and many of us are alienated from death (and dead bodies). Yet death is inevitable and we can decrease our anxieties when we talk about death in a healthy, open way. More death positivity, and perhaps more contact with dead bodies, may ease our fears surrounding the subject. How else can death positivity be practiced?

From the video’s description: Death is a topic few people in the West care to discuss, and mortician Caitlin Doughty would like to change that. Doughty helps people confront the nuts and bolts of death on her YouTube channel, “Ask a Mortician.” “I think that people want to hear the information we're presenting,” she told InsideEdition.com “They want to hear somebody like me talk about death as if it's not strange.” She added, “People should not be afraid of death.”