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'We've lost the language of dying' - Why is death such a difficult subject for us to talk about?
The D-Word is a documentary about death, presented through the perspective of those who deal with the dead on a daily basis. It's something that binds us universally, yet we fail to understand or accept that death is a basic feature of living.
Mixing interview with actuality recordings this documentary takes the listener through a hospital mortuary, inside funeral homes and across a churchyard to examine our rather neurotic relationship with death. Along the way we hear from pathologist Stuart Hamilton, local undertaker John Duckworth, writer Sue Brayne, environmentally conscious undertaker Jeremy Smith and Churchwarden David Coates.
The D-Word uncovers why death has become increasingly taboo in modern society and how a new bread of environmentally conscious funeral directors are trying to reacquaint us with the notion that life is celebrated through the process of death.
This piece was featured as a show on Transom.org.
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'We've lost the language of dying' - Why is death such a difficult subject for us to talk about?
The D-Word is a documentary about death, presented through the perspective of those who deal with the dead on a daily basis. It's something that binds us universally, yet we fail to understand or accept that death is a basic feature of living.
Mixing interview with actuality recordings this documentary takes the listener through a hospital mortuary, inside funeral homes and across a churchyard to examine our rather neurotic relationship with death. Along the way we hear from pathologist Stuart Hamilton, local undertaker John Duckworth, writer Sue Brayne, environmentally conscious undertaker Jeremy Smith and Churchwarden David Coates.
The D-Word uncovers why death has become increasingly taboo in modern society and how a new bread of environmentally conscious funeral directors are trying to reacquaint us with the notion that life is celebrated through the process of death.
This piece was featured as a show on Transom.org.
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