Dead bodies inspire meaning in life
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Christine Montross: Before Christine Montross decided to become a psychiatrist, she was a poet, university writing instructor and high school English teacher. So she has a way with words.
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The items on display at the Sept. 11 Tribute Center are tiny reminders of life's vibrant moments: rosary beads, wedding photos, a baseball. But there are also somber reminders of death, from a piece of a plane used in the attacks and missing-person fliers posted by desperate family members.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Three weeks after the  Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead  but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still  has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.
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Got a terminal illness? Hooray. In the movies, looming death means last-minute adventures and loads of uplifting life lessons
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Richard Foreman has thoughtfully whipped up a dazzling exercise in reality-shifting that is as invigorating as it is mournful.
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Some high school biology classes are using real human cadavers to teach students anatomy in a different way.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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Rip up those obituaries. The club you thought had passed away still has more than enough life left in it. Enough to beat the champions.
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For the men who practice it, it's about not just fitness but a connection with God.
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The oddball premise, about a man who brings murder victims back to life, has generated buzz.
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SOMETHING strange has been happening this year. In conversations with several Malaysians, often strangers or acquaintances, more and more people have said that they have had a relative who had died of AIDS.
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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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Â· Sense of disbelief among family and fellow actorsÂ· Sleeping pills reportedly found near body
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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Environment lovers can now take their passion to the grave.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.