Plague Post #2: Is death really a big deal?

Does a plague desensitize the meaning of death?

Death has a strange meaning as is, I know what it means but I’m not sure how much value you can give to it.  When someone or something ceases to exist they are pronounced dead.  The now dead organism can no longer contribute to their environment in anyway, let it be their expression love, work, negativity or any other characteristics any being may bring to the world.  I think mass extinction of any population would desensitize its meaning.  To see death on a regular basis becomes so… normal and maybe even boring.  When the plague hits, people are traumatized and sad for their now deceased loved ones.  The funerals that were once held to celebrate the deceased are no longer elaborate and are rushed for the next processions.  In All Souls, the young people were dying at a pretty disturbing rate but the citizens in the neighbor easily turned their heads as if it was no big deal.  In The Plague a citizen stated, "Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right". Death is a big deal and mass extinction should not change that.