An excellent treatment of a difficult subject. I witnessed my father in law's death in the hospital two years ago. That week I experienced the death of two people close to me: a teacher and mentor had died in Hospice the day before, and I had spent time there with him and his family and friends in the final days.

It does affect us deeply and for a long time. I wrote about it on my Steemit blog a few times last year. I agree that the tendency to deny and avoid the fact that death is party of life is unhealthy.