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Facing death in a faith community is always a difficult experience, especially in a culture where death is both trivialized and avoided with a false sense of reality. People today are flooded with a commercialization of death avoidance that oppresses the aging and lies to the young. This multib...
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Death & Dying
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Christian - Protestant/Other
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church and death, dealing with death, death, eric blauer
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Fabulous article, thank you Bruce! Major points for working Douglas Adams in.
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