The WA Australian of the Year wants us to talk more about one of the only certainties in life… death.

Professor Samar Aoun (above), the Perron Institute Research Chair in palliative care at UWA, told Michael Genovese – in the Breakfast chair for Gareth Parker today – that we need to talk more openly about our mortality.

“People don’t think about these things, we need to do it really at an early stage in our lives… even kids when they have a death of a grandparent or a friend, they tend to be isolated and not be told anything, and hidden and taken. They need to know that death is a part of life,” she told Genovese.

The WA Australian of the Year wants us to talk more about one of the only certainties in life… death.
Professor Samar Aoun (above), the Perron Institute Research Chair in palliative care at UWA, told Michael Genovese – in the Breakfast chair for Gareth Parker today – that we need to talk more openly about our mortality.
“People don’t think about these things, we need to do it really at an early stage in our lives… even kids when they have a death of a grandparent or a friend, they tend to be isolated and not be told anything, and hidden and taken. They need to know that death is a part of life,” she told Genovese.

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