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Yesterday, after a decade long battle with diabetes, one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, B.B. King, died at the age of ...
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The history of funeral traditions and rituals indicates that they have been an important part of how communities and individuals externalized grief for thousands ...
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“With all our focus on life [in modernity] death was forgotten” Building Death TED Talk In her short TED Talk, Alison Killing wants ...
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If cinema is a mirror into our collective psyche, then documentaries are the direct representation of who we are. Documentaries run from the ...
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