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What's the correct way to talk about death?

Why do some people have such a problem talking about death?

Rachael, Deborah and Lauren are joined by the actor Greg Wise, who took care of his dying sister, to discuss some of the hang ups people have around the subject.

"We have to learn the language. We've got to know the vocabulary," said the 52-year-old.

"One of the things that was very clear and one of the reasons for writing a blog (with my sister) in the first place, was because I realised that I was spending an inordinate amount of time dealing with other people's neurosis."

"Not my own, not the sufferers, not the person in the centre of the circle, but people in the circle outside me."

"And I was having to deal with their neuroses, about their life and their idea of death and them unable to come to terms with a friend of theirs dying brings their mortality front and centre."

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