It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.

It is time to talk about death.

Before I leave for an overnight and I clean the house because I always think if something

happens to me and my family comes to the house, I don't want to have rotten food in the

refrigerator and I don't want to have... My name's Theresa Morsey and I've always been aware of death. I had a brother who died when I was three months old and it was something that we were not allowed to talk about.

I think in society people feel uncomfortable and want to change the topic, and death is morbid.

We've been avoiding death for a long time now. We don't want to think about people we love dying,

and we don't want to contemplate our own death. It's kind of a taboo subject, but now something's

changing. This is a death cafe, a group of people who've come together to share tasty treats

and talk about the one thing supposedly no one wants to talk about.

My name is Jatind Tima, but I go by Chima.

I think death is such an integral part of life.

And the concept of not talking about it as a morbid issue, but having a little likeness to it,

like a cafe atmosphere or the whole idea you get together, have tea and talk about it, was attractive to me.

These conversations are happening all over the country at death cafes, death dinners, death

salons, and for the next five episodes, we'll be bringing the conversation to you.

So to start out, let's talk about talking about death, because even though we think we don't

like to talk about death, in fact, it's possible that we are all actually dying to talk about it.

Caitlin Doty is the woman behind Ask a Mortician, a series of cheerfully morbid YouTube videos.

Where have all the corpses gone?

Until I was 23 years old, I didn't see too many dead bodies.

Even though 2.5 million people die every year in the U.S., I just didn't see them.

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