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Topic: Funerals

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My parents died. It's a whole second job

Becky Robison
This Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 photo shows a room inside a funeral home in Saginaw, Mich. According to a study by the government released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, life expectancy in the United States has fallen for the first time in more than 20 years. (Katy Kildee/The Saginaw News - MLive.com via AP) (AP)

Advocates seek to close "loophole"

Hillel Aron - FairWarning
Abraham Lincoln (Wikimedia)

How Lincoln created a funeral industry

Brian Walsh - The Conversation
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Jenny Kutner
(AP/Benny Snyder)

City cemeteries are filling up

Joanna Rothkopf
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Secret lives of undertakers

Ken McKenzie
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The future of fuel: Our bodies

Rory Tolan
(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

WBC's little-discussed setback

Matthew Bruenig
A photo of the author at her First Communion

Deborah Jackson Taffa
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Tracy Clark-Flory
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Prachi Gupta
A white "Ghost Bike" chained to a post where a bicyclist died in Arizona

BARTON E. PRICE - Religion Dispatches
The coffin of British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rests in the Crypt Chapel of St Mary Undercroft beneath the Houses of Parliament in central London on Tuesday April 16, 2013. (AP/Leon Neal)

World's most divisive funeral

Rhian E. Jones
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Matt Apuzzo, Pat Eaton-robb
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