United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Chloe Zhao is training to be a death doula.

The 43-year-old director is attempting to overcome her fear of the end of life by undertaking a specialist course to learn how to provide physical and emotional support to people with terminal illnesses and their families before and after their deaths.

Discussing her movie Hamnet's approach to grief, Chloe revealed she had "recently trained to be a death doula" in the UK.

She told the New York Times newspaper: "I just finished Level 1 training in the UK. In one of the training sessions, we had to research Indigenous cultures from around the world, how they deal with death and dying both today and in the past.

"You can see that the grief of losing a loved one doesn'...