This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 988, how to connect with a friend who has lost someone in English.

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What should you say when your friend has lost someone in their life?

Today we review an article that critiques common ways to offer support and we offer our own opinion on which ones will

lead to better connections in English. Hey Lindsay how you doing.

Hey Michelle not too bad hanging in there.

Okay awesome.

So today we're going to talk about something a little bit sad.

What is it, Lindsay?

Well, we're going to talk a little bit about loss and death.

And we might touch on suicide a little bit here because there's some things well first of all

there's some things that have been happening the last few weeks in American culture

there have been a couple of high-profile suicides actually

a couple of big names have killed themselves and when this came out I was shocked to

see the this particular statistic saying that the suicide in the US has

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