1. In her introduction to Stiff, Mary Roach remarks that "death makes us helplessly polite."Why is it that we're compelled to use polite language when discussing death? Why are we often afraid

to discuss it in the way Roach has done here?

Listening is also important because you spend more time listening than participating in any other communication activity. in fact, you spend more time listening to others than doing almost anything else. typical americans spend more than 80 percent of any average day communicating with other people l. they spend 45 percent of that communication time listening to others. which sentence states the main idea?