I couldn't because of the grief and then, once I had learned to live with it, either I'd been changed into a more solitary person or I realised that was the person I'd always been".
Morrissey recites extracts from one such story in particular, about the death of Rose Derdon, in which her husband, Hubert, cries not out of grief but because of his sadness at not feeling any grief.
One of the most popular characters, Dana, was killed off, and other characters began acting oddly - not out of grief but because the show's writers had quite literally lost the plot.
He cautions that a lot of experimental research still needs to be done to properly investigate the mechanisms of grief, because, he says, "it's one of the most common events that we'll have to cope with, and yet it's very poorly understood".
If her injunction went unheeded, perhaps it is because the messiness of grief is what makes us uncomfortable.
He knows that she and he and we all have to die – and in a sense this is about making the best of that, whistling hymns in the dark because the alternative of grief is too dreadful to live with.
