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When A Daughter Has Had More Than Enough of Her Father – Even in Death

We reprint a New York Times story from the Metropolitan Diary Column

Dear Diary: My sister and I were tending plants at her Manhattan community garden when a woman approached and asked whether the ashes of her recently deceased father might be spread in the garden. Before my sister had a chance … Continue reading

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“A Good Death” by Joshua Bright

The New York Times photographer learned many things from the dying John R. Hawkins -- among them, what it means to have "a good death"

“I had never looked closely for a long period at a dying person,” writes photographer Joshua Bright of The New York Times; “I had never listened to the strained breathing of a body barely functioning and had never put my … Continue reading

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