Does the plague desensitize death?

The plague does desensitize death. At first, the other citizens care about the funerals and how the dead are being buried. The government cares as well and tries to keep the funerals similar to usual, but soon efficiency and speed become higher concerns. The funerals are shortened and scheduled at night. There is no ceremony, no relatives or friends participating. But they keep track of them. This is considered successful, which shows the authority's lowered standards. Eventually there is no space left and no time to make more space so the bodies are carried by train to the crematorium. The government tries to keep the population in the dark about this, but they catch on and some hide by the tracks of the passing train and toss flowers in. This shows humanity is left, and that there are attempts to make the funerals at least the tiniest bit more "tasteful." Optimism changes and people are okay with this funeral process because it grew no worse. Their thinking changes from "How do I want to be buried and how do I want my funeral to go?" to "Good enough" or something along the lines of how these funerals are still at least better than a dog's funeral.
Their thinking of death changes as well. They become numb to it. It is around them all the time and the chances of someone's loved one dying are very high. It's similar to what Viktor Frankl says in "Man's Search for Meaning." In the concentration camps, people eventually stopped reacting to bad situations or death. The same thing happens during the plague. The memories of loved ones fade, their emotions are much less intense. Everyone's adapting to the plague. There is no other way to keep living in that situation, according to the narrator of "The Plague." Everyone lives in the present moment. One can't think of the future much because the uncertainty of the future is clear in a situation like this one. In drastic situations, drastic and abnormal things happen and that is to be expected: that the unexpected will happen.