Absolutely Fabulous star Jane Horrocks has said death has become “more taboo” in recent years and needs to be talked about. The British actress, 60, is an ambassador for the UK’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie, and has helped to launch its Diary Of A Wardrobe auction, which has seen celebrity donations from the likes of model Kate Moss, Dame Julie Walters and Dame Shirley Bassey. Speaking about the charity, she told the PA news agency: “We don’t talk about death enough, and it’s (Marie Curie) all about living and prolonging life.
“And people don’t talk about the inevitable that is going to come to us all at some point in our life. “And I feel it should be talked about more and possibly not feared in the way that the Western world seems to fear it.” She continued: “It’s (death) got more taboo, I think, as time has gone on, with medication, with the intervention of medication to prolong life.
” The actress has been working with Marie Curie for years and said it is a great charity as “families are very much included in the death process”. Horrocks was working with them when her mother died but had not asked for help at the time, which she said she would have done “in hindsight”, as she found the handling of her mother’s death “brutal”. She said she was asked to leave the room so the carers could prepare her body following her death, and found it “really hard”.
“We stayed a very short time, and then it was home – and I wasn.