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mortuary

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’
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