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Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you ...

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Agatha ChristieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs

Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and garden...

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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyon...

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But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three...

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My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. An...

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and D...

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No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been...

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Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories