(Description) Figure 5 Lack of control over their bodies forms the basis for the dark humour, focused on death, in the black comedy film Death Becomes Her in which Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play characters who take a magic potion that promises eternal youth but suffer unpleasant effects which they cannot control when their bodies physically die.

An introduction to death, dying and grief

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An image from the film Death Becomes Her (1992) with Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn.