It's been said the Irish do death well, but do we plan it badly?

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Why are we so willing to risk leaving our nearest and dearest with a big logistical mess after we die?

Talking about dying and even thinking about it is not something that we tend to do, but if we don't start facing up to the inevitability of death, we will end up having decisions made for us by people who don't know what we want.

One of the sons said that his father did try to talk to him about it, but the son had told him not to be so miserable and ended the conversation. When you hear that story, you wonder how your own heart would bear up if you were standing at the graveside. Does that tell us that death, the most natural of life events, has become a medical event and in ways is seen as a failure of medicine?

 

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