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Wed 04 Apr 2008O'Faolain's anguish at facing death can give a jolt to
our lives
IN HER weekend interview with Marian Finucane, Nuala O'Faolain described facing her experience of dying. With the same unsentimental, uncompromising courage she has brought to many dark corners of human experience, she gave this country a shot of emotional honesty that has allowed us to confront what is perhaps our deepest fear, writes TONY BATES.
There is a large body of opinion in psychology that believes the fear of death is natural and present in everyone, that it is the basic fear that influences all others, a fear from which no one is immune, no matter how disguised it may be.
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