"We are social beings and we need to say goodbye to someone of our own," says Montse Esquerda, pediatrician, psychologist and author of the book 'Talking about death to live and die better' "Talking about it is a door that must be opened when we are well and so, when something happens to us, it will be easier to walk through it," says Carlos Siurana, vice president of the Bioethics Committee of the University of Valencia. "In the past, in small villages it was naturally known that death was coming, the neighbors were preparing for the irremediable and giving their last instructions"