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Unexpected Stories from Science’s Past
June 9, 2014 Arts & Culture

A Good Death

Death Salon founder Megan Rosenbloom tells us what a good death means to her.

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Megan Rosenbloom is a medical librarian and the founder of the Death Salon, a group of thinkers focused on mortality and its role in culture and history. She explains how American death culture changed after the Civil War. And she tell us about what she’d like to happen to her body after she dies.

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