Letters to the Editor: The natural process of death being thwarted

The need to use the time when living to address dying offers a precise concision on this matter for all.

Seamus O’Mahony’s incisive commentary (“The time to talk...” Irish Examiner, November 27) on the need to use the time when living to address the holistic essentials of dying offers a worthy and precise concision in this inevitable, inescapable matter for all.

He laments the latter day over-medicalisation of the final-furlong journey and proposes that “the time to talk is now”, to ensure that regret doesn’t fester over missed opportunity for candid exchange across the full range of personal, familial, communal and spiritual issues.