Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions both good and bad become transparent no longer limited by outward appearences.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.