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Topic: dying

Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in "Harold and Maude" (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

Harold taught me to not fear death

Kelly McClure
Computer artwork of an ECG (electrocardiogram) trace in front of a human brain (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scanning the brains of the dying

Troy Farah
Map of the United States with a diagonal route pinned with string, from Cape Flattery, WA, to Key West, FL. (Getty Images/Salon)

My father's final trip wouldn't be solo

Christine Hemp
Mark Webber and Bodhi Palmer in "The Place of No Words" (Courtesy of Wide Awake Cinema)

Going inside "The Place of No Words"

Gary M. Kramer
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Paddleton (Netflix)

Would you help your good friend die?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/Salon)

Facing death, with the whitest teeth

John Pettegrew
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin; The Afterlives: A Novel by Thomas Pierce (G.P. Putnam's Sons/Riverhead Books)

Who wants to live forever?

Erin Keane
(Getty/solarseven)

Can humanity make peace with its death?

Matthew Rozsa
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(Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Finding peace with your ghosts

Caleb Wilde
(Alison Christiana/HarperOne)

How to get through the worst, together

Lauren Schiller
Prince; David Bowie (AP/Star Tribune/Bob Child)

When death is a trending topic

Julia Cooper
Doulas are no longer just for birthing help - now they support hospice patients (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-277009p1.html'>Photographee.eu</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

From birth to death with doula

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
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I’m glad my dog is dying

Joe P. Squance
(Shutterstock/Penguin/Salon)

Dying with a lifetime of books

Lynette Williamson
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-733993p1.html'>Robert Hoetink</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Cake and death

Tiffany Hearsey
Doulas are no longer just for birthing help - now they support hospice patients (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-277009p1.html'>Photographee.eu</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

No pictures, please!

Dr David Casarett
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End of life care at home is a better, more cost-effective option (<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-206023p1.html “>CandyBox Images</a> via <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/">Shutterstock</a>)

Dying is never easy

Claire Bidwell Smith
A photo of the author's mother.

My mother is dying right now

George Hodgman
A photo of the author and her father

My father’s medical mystery

N. West Moss
Brittany Maynard (CNN)

Brittany Maynard's brave call

Joanna Rothkopf
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Chinese game simulates death

Joanna Rothkopf
(Frank Micelotta/invision/ap)

Prachi Gupta
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-546778p1.html'>Henk Vrieselaar</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Patients can handle the truth

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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