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    In the 2014 short film ASMAT- Nomi per tutte le vittime in mare (names in memory of all victims of the sea.), director Dagmawi Yimer illuminates the tragedy of the migrant lives lost to the Mediterranean in experimental form. For the majority of the film, a narrator lists the names of the migrants who died in a shipwreck on October 3, 2013, after opening the film with a partially-sung monologue from a migrant's perspective. Yimer depicts the names that are read aloud as shrouded forms bobbing up…

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    CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF FUNERAL AND DEATH RITUALS This chapter explored the theoretical foundation of funeral and death rituals. In other words, the purpose was to gain a basic knowledge about how funeral and death rituals were treated in the past. Only with such understanding of funeral and death rituals background, the graveness of the issue would be appreciated. Therefore, this chapter started with exploring its Biblical perception that is, as told in the Old and New…

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    Nobody can go through life without losing someone they love. Whether that’s a family member, a friend, a significant other, or just someone you’ve gotten to know. We’ve all lost somebody we’ve loved when we least expected it, or maybe you thought they would make it, but they didn’t. That is what happened to me with my great grandmother. She was 86, and someone who I couldn't fathom losing. One day she fell while taking a shower, and broke her back. She was slowly getting better when she started…

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    Role Of Alchemy In Taoism

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    survive. ELT 622. Furthermore immortality could also be described as a transcendend state of mind, which due to meditation and high concentration is able to evoke a state of escatic trance and therefore the immortality does not just means the no-death of the body but is more likely to be a state of mind. In particular a state of mind where one is more at home in the transcendence…

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    David Sedaris is a surely understood writer celebrated for some books and individual expositions, for example, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls and Naked. At first he had five kin: Lisa, Gretchen, Amy, Tiffany, and Paul, however his sister, Tiffany, submitted suicide as of late. In addition, Sedaris moved on from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. Not just is he all that much celebrated for his comical inclination and mocking style in his compositions,…

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    suddenly felt dizzy, and then, she appeared in a dance - death dance. In her ear, there was a voice: "welcome to death dance, now announced the rules of the game by me, after the start of the party will put music" resurrection ", and the concert lasted looping, time about a week, uninterrupted, but, after you every day, you will get an Easter card, can let you live a day, eliminated the rest of the people will be put to death."…

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    To start with, the idea of the ‘release’ in The Giver entails ending the lives of useless individuals or those who do not adhere to the expectations of the society including babies, old people and insubordinate children. First, the idea of the release is ‘promoted’ by the Elders as they inform citizens that those who are to be released will disturb the order of the society as a whole. So for the benefit of all, people will think that it is better for them to release those useless individuals who…

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    neighbor, Mr. Daneski. He had walked in to congratulate her on her second month of sobriety. The autopsy confirmed that the cause of her death was, indeed, an overdose. She sat through a weeks long movie marathon entitled “I Dream Of Jeanie” without so much as moving and, in doing so, she died. The name of the deceased was known as “Hollie Joy Wright,” date of death September sixth, 2081. Hollie was the seventh child out of twelve born into the Glenn and Linda Wright family; birthdate April…

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    Julien, S. (2012). What to Do When a Loved One Dies. Retrieved from https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-06-2012/when-loved-one-dies-checklist.html The article What to do when a loved one dies was written with the purpose of informing the reader on what they should do when a loved one dies along with different suggestions that make the difficult situation less difficult. The article provides a checklist with all the responsibilities that one might be left in charge of, the…

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    Suicide: your last mistake “Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.A” (American Foundation for suicide prevention). In many places law states that life is a basic human right. But taking your own life is a clear violation to these laws, as well as a biggest mistake you’ll commit. The media is portraying suicide as an over glorified choice of action someone can take over a simple problem. I believe that even though life is hard, committing suicide shall never be an option. Just…

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