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World Service,21 Aug 2015,17 mins

Talking about Death

The Why Factor

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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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