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obtuaries, death notices, and necrology  

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  • Death is the final equalizer, but how the living interpret and respond to death and how it is presented publicly is social and cultural. Some form of public notification of individual death is common in all of the developed world and much of the underdeveloped world except in times of mass tragedies, such as war, famine, or natural disaster. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Obituaries, Death Notices, and Necrology]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HV2J7BGL-S

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