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Dec 4 - Dancing With Death

Dec 4 - Dancing With Death
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New Zealand's best known dancer and choreographer, Douglas Wright.

The key to being a great dancer, says Wright, is to not be afraid of your dark emotions. Which is fortunate, because for Wright, darkness has been a constant.

60 Minutes first met Wright while researching a story on euthanasia. Tired of his depression and his HIV, and perhaps also his sense of failure, Wright rang reporter Paula Penfold to say he wanted to get a suicide drug from Mexico.

But amid all this darkness is some light. The good news is that Wright is back from the brink, and as Penfold discovers, it’s his love of dance that saved his life.

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