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Death
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Soul On Ice?
If you’re looking for a way to control your money from the grave and religious promises of spiritual immortality don’t grab you, then your brass ring may be cryogenic internment.
April 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
And What Remains
Selecting a coffin for my father, I noticed that the salesman, solicitous at first, turned cool when I asked for the cheapest box. This was hidden in a closet.
April 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
The Experience Of Dying
Although — with the possible exception of mediumistic communications — no one has returned from the dead to give an account of his experience, reports of people who have nearly died suggest that it is a profoundly transcendent experience.
April 1976
Poetry
Selected Poems
It slips through us / a parade of delicate / dead women that carry / the sun in the August sky
— from “End of Summer”
February 1976
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