Jennifer Horgan: Our obsession with youth is a way of denying death, but we should embrace it

Did you ever enter a contest to see who could lift a corpse? No? Not recently?

Maybe you wrestled over a corpse then, or played cards, handing the deceased their own hand. No? Not that one either.

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