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Every day, around the world 160,000 people die: World Health Organization statistics.
A separate study found evidence: Journal of Palliative Medicine 17, no. 3 (2014).
Most dying people lose any desire: “What It Feels Like to Die,” Atlantic, Sept. 9, 2016.
Agonal breathing, in which the sufferer: “The Agony of Agonal Respiration: Is the Last Gasp Necessary?,” Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2002.
cancer sufferers receiving palliative care: Economist, April 29, 2017, 55.
“One review found that”: Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard, 7.
“A man’s corpse looks as though”: Nuland, How We Die, 122.
Some organs function longer than others: “Rotting Reactions,” Chemistry World, Sept. 2016.
decomposition in a sealed coffin: “What’s Your Dust Worth?,” London Review of Books, April 14, 2011.
The average grave is visited: Literary Review, May 2013, 43.
A century ago, only about one person in a hundred: “What’s Your Dust Worth?”
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