Do you or do you not hesitate in doing this during a wake?

I remember when I was a child, I had no qualms in viewing someone who has passed away in his or her coffin during a wake. Now, in my later years in life, I have stopped doing so. Maybe because I began to realize it’s an empty shell in there and they are somewhere else so, what’s the point? Or maybe I’m more aware of my own mortality now and shuns the reality of it all?