Episode
Horizon: We Need to Talk about Death
Overview
Dr Kevin Fong makes a personal journey through the moral questions about death that face not just the medical profession, but each and every one of us.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 56
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2019-01-23
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
We Need to Talk about Death is Episode 1 in 2019 of Horizon. It aired on 2019-01-23. The runtime is 60 min.
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