How to Talk About Death

In Doughty’s video Talking About Death, she talks about how a lot of people, specifically parents are in denial about death and a lot of people have a hard time talking to their parents about it. In the video Doughty gives a step by step guide on how to influence your parents to not believe death is so bad. One step she brings up is to make your parents believe that talking about death is the right thing to do. If you don’t face your death and create conversation about it with the people you care about, then the conversation will never happen. The second step is to start early with the conversation about death. Doughty states that waiting last minute is too late and she shows this by bringing up an example comparing it to athletes in the Olympics. Athletes do not wait until a few weeks before the Olympics. They train months or even years before, so that is what we need to do when speaking about death. Another step she talks about is to be organized and have specific facts on why we need to start talking about death more. By having factual evidence, that can be the trigger that changes your parents’ mind and gets them to finally see that talking about is beneficial and important. 

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  1. Mary DrobnyApril 2, 2019 at 8:36 PM

    This video is the one that made the most sense to me! It is really hard to talk to my parents about death. It's interesting because my parents will talk to me about how they are doing with talking to their parent's death but they can't talk to me about theirs. I think it is just such an uncomfortable topic! I found this video to be fairly helpful though. These are some good thoughts about it!

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