When watching the updated Shōgun, I was struck by how absolutely casual everyone was, about death; both the death of others, and their own.

I assume that was a cultural trait of the time. It does not seem to be so much so, these days.

I was raised in Africa, and was quite familiar with death -frequently violent death, at an early age.

We live in privileged times, where we have the luxury of not thinking about death.