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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

(Getty/Evert Elzinga/Wikicommon)

2016: Elegy for a year of loss

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62233p1.html'>Arman Zhenikeyev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"Dad, could we talk?"

A photo of the author.

I refused to die unpublished

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Meet Bad Cripple

Daniel D'Addario

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

Caring for Dad with Mom gone

Cris Gutierrez (Mark Pritchard)

"What it felt like to die"

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

She was like a mother to me

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

Where do teens go with grief?

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My cat died and I feel blinded

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My secret condom use

Valerie Harper (Reuters/Sam Mircovich)

"Rhoda" talks life and death

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My junkie friend secretly died

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My dad's gone off the rails

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

Helping my mother grieve

(iStockphoto/Alina555)

A kids club where parents die

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Will Schwalbe

So many books, so little time

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