Perhaps have you read Baudrillard (specifically, Symbollic Exchange and Death)?
He talks precisely about this problem: that by rejecting death and segregating it from life, we end up immortalizing death and suffer from this distinction. And this ontological paradox ultimately encompasses every aspect of Western society: not only how we treat the dead (rise of suicides and euthanasia, and our reaction to it), and soon-to-be-dead (the elderly abandoned in nursing houses), but also the functions of Capital and labour, the breaking down of social democracy, the ever-increasing opposition between the State and terrorism, and the eventual rise of fascism (the perverse aestheticization of death).
All of this is quite complex and I can't do justice here in this single comment, but I highly recommend it if you haven't read it. (I personally think this is Baudrillard's magnum opus, whereas most people only remember him for the book Simulacra and Simulation and the concept of hyper-reality.)
He talks precisely about this problem: that by rejecting death and segregating it from life, we end up immortalizing death and suffer from this distinction. And this ontological paradox ultimately encompasses every aspect of Western society: not only how we treat the dead (rise of suicides and euthanasia, and our reaction to it), and soon-to-be-dead (the elderly abandoned in nursing houses), but also the functions of Capital and labour, the breaking down of social democracy, the ever-increasing opposition between the State and terrorism, and the eventual rise of fascism (the perverse aestheticization of death).
All of this is quite complex and I can't do justice here in this single comment, but I highly recommend it if you haven't read it. (I personally think this is Baudrillard's magnum opus, whereas most people only remember him for the book Simulacra and Simulation and the concept of hyper-reality.)