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The Death Dinner – Opening up the Last Taboo

I am 64, and entering into the terrain of my own drawing-closer mortality - yet talking about death is still forbidden. Sex is so much more out in the open. Death is the last taboo

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Nov 07, 2017
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‘After the soaring, a peace like swans settling on a lake. After the tumult and the roaring winds, Silence.’

Sheila Kitzinger, the natural childbirth activist who died in 2015

I am 64, and entering into the terrain of my own drawing-closer mortality - yet talking about death is still forbidden. Sex is so much more out in the open. Death is the last taboo.…

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