Beyond The Grave Analysis

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Beyond The Grave Death is a topic that all living beings on this earth will have to face. Mark Twain once said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life.” Death is a subject that either inspires people to live life to the fullest and live everyday like it's their last or it's a subject that people are more comfortable not discussing. Many American's find it difficult to have this conversation with their loved ones because they do not want to have to think about life without them. According to Yasmin Hafiz in her article in the Huffington post states that a good proportion, 27% to be exact, of U.S. adults have only given a little to no thought at all about death and their preferences of how they want their loved ones to say goodbye.

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