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cause of death
cosmopolitan society
cultural lag
danger-of-death narratives
death anxiety
death café
death education
death notice
death rates
death talk
demographics
Dies Irae
digital afterlife
dirge
egalitarian obit
elegy
epidemiologic transition
epitaph
euphemism
geographic mobility
globalization
hibakusha
kanikau

keening
lament
life expectancy
life-extending technologies
lossography
managed death
mean world syndrome
memorialization
mortality salience
narcocorridos
obituary
plastination
postmodernism
public event vs. private loss
revictimization
sites of memory
terror management
thanatology
vigilante stories







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