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Article: Death is most natural thing in the world: a world with no room for death has no room for a meaningful life.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- July 26, 1996
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"No thanks, man, I ain't going up to that death house."
When even the down-and-out begin to reject your dinner invitations, you have to wonder. Ever since we began to do hospice work, the rumors on the street have been thick as Los Angeles smog.
"Yeah, folks go up there and they never come back!"
"And they got bodies buried all over the place."
It doesn't help that we live in an old three-story Victorian that could pass for the Addams family's mansion and that a generation of children grew up calling our place the "haunted house." So to have death as a frequent visitor in our home has not enhanced our social visibility.