But perhaps more than any other big question, we are obsessed with the question of what will happen after we die. So personal and so mandatory is our own death, that this question supercedes all others.

Words have power. We are collectively afraid of even saying words such as “death” or “die” or “dead.”

Changing how we talk about death is often the first step in changing our relationship with death. These are four primary reasons it is important to talk openly about death.