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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; death</title>
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	<description>what passes as light</description>
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		<title>Message from the Grave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking among the graves of strangers on a sunny spring afternoon made me neither sad nor worried about mortality. It did have another effect: the sparse information on tombstones left me imagining the lives of people from other times and other places. They came to life again, however briefly, as I pictured the families they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Triple Wow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to Steve Jobs to depart this world with words of wonder. In another context his last utterance would have been overused slang, a reflexive expression lacking meaning. Oh wow. Not so with Jobs as he slipped slowly toward death. Immediately after gazing at his family and then staring past them, he said: OH [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No One Chooses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a decade ago, a sudden medical problem made me afraid I was going to die on the spot. What had I done to deserve the infamy of croaking in Costco? ]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Skeptic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Philosophy Talk&#8221; I heard this declaration referring to death: &#8220;The world as I know it will cease to exist,&#8221; and then there will be nothing. When I heard this somber reminder of what everyone fears, I was in the car on the way home. I had been drinking wine at a downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art after death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insane, abandoned, and anonymous. This describes many people who lived out there lives at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, starting in 1883 and into the 1970s. Their cremated remains were put in numbered copper canisters and stored. But time and chemical reactions have turned them into art after death, art challenging perceptions of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punctuation for the dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ironic futility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some news stories I can&#8217;t get out of my head. They keep reverberating with questions. Take the post-mortem wishes of two men, one an astronaut wanting to return to space, the other an actor astronaut wanting to go there for the first time. Gordon Cooper, who orbited the Earth alone twenty-two times in 1963 aboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death, never rewritten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[regrets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Odd what catches one&#8217;s eye. In Saturday&#8217;s Oregonian, a story about a man&#8217;s death at the coast invited a quick read. Why I&#8217;m not sure. The story was terse, as such stories usually are and have to be because of limited space: a for-the-record summary of another tragedy, another person dying too young. This morning [...]]]></description>
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