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Talking about Death

It’s something that will come to all of us. So why is it so hard to talk about death? Mike Williams meets a woman facing her own mortality and another who looks after the dying.

It’s something that will come to all of us. So why is it so hard to talk about death?
Mike Williams meets a British doctor facing her own mortality and another in India who wrestles with telling her patients the bad news.

Produced by Smita Patel

(Photo: Four gravestones in a graveyard. Credit: Shutterstock)

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Mon 24 Aug 201513:32GMT
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