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Topic: Death and Dying

Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

The complex ethics of unclaimed bodies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Dramatic Anglican old cemetery, garden foreground (Getty Images/La_Corivo)

Are cemeteries obsolete?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Medical team in a hurry carrying an organ transplants box by ambulance, with heart rate monitor (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How dead is "dead enough"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Venison, Elk Sirloin Tip Roast (Getty Images/LauriPatterson)

The ethical case for hunting

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Have your funeral before you die

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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2016: Elegy for a year of loss
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"Dad, could we talk?"

Lisa Gornick
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I refused to die unpublished

Leland Cheuk
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Meet Bad Cripple

Ann Neumann

Daniel D'Addario
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

Caring for Dad with Mom gone

Cary Tennis
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Cris Gutierrez (Mark Pritchard)

"What it felt like to die"

Cris Gutierrez
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

She was like a mother to me

Cary Tennis
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Where do teens go with grief?

Cary Tennis
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My cat died and I feel blinded

Cary Tennis
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My secret condom use

Cary Tennis
Valerie Harper (Reuters/Sam Mircovich)

"Rhoda" talks life and death

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Michael Hainey
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My junkie friend secretly died

Cary Tennis
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My dad's gone off the rails

Cary Tennis
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Helping my mother grieve

Cary Tennis
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A kids club where parents die

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Will Schwalbe

So many books, so little time

Laura Miller
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