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Culture
How this mortician wants to dispose of her body: Vultures
My memorials
Culture
Social media is transforming the way we view death and grieving
Matthew Sullivan working on a prototype operating table | Suspended Animation, Boytan Beach, Florida, USA 2010
Culture
Here’s what it looks like to be frozen
Social gathering and sharing a meal during Russian Easter honoring the dead, Spring Valley, New Jersey, 1997
Arts
Photographers look for ‘the poetry of death and dying in America’
Dr. Robert Sappenfield with his son Bob, Dorchester, 1988
Arts
Why this photographer takes portraits of the dying
Phil Toledano hugs his father in a photo from his book, "Days With My Father."
Arts
How a photographer captured his father’s final years
Andrea Soldo is consoled by family members after receiving a flag during the funeral services for her husband, Las Vegas police officer Igor Soldo, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 12, 2014.
Culture
Americans don’t talk much about death, but that may be changing