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My grandmother is ill and cannot care for her aging Yorkshire terrier.
By Cary Tennis
November 28, 2007
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Is it time to go back to California?
By Cary Tennis
November 26, 2007
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The neighbor who took care of him before he died says he promised her his car. Should she get it, or should my sister?
By Cary Tennis
November 20, 2007
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Is there a delicate way to tell his boss that I'm not job hunting, but I think I'd make a great replacement?
By Cary Tennis
September 25, 2007
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Morbid curiosity and ridicule have replaced respect for the deceased at MyDeathSpace, where your life is an open book -- even when you're 6 feet under.
By Jamie Pietras
July 31, 2007
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By the time you read this, she'll probably be gone. Why couldn't I be by her side?
By Cary Tennis
July 25, 2007
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I finally escaped the deadly web of small-town Southern life. But it keeps pulling on me!
By Cary Tennis
July 13, 2007
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I look at my happy 4-year-old and foresee his troubles.
By Cary Tennis
July 2, 2007
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This guy does not respect me or notice me! What can I do?
By Cary Tennis
May 29, 2007
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I know what the issues are, but I can't really deal with them.
By Cary Tennis
May 4, 2007
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Now that death has come, words that used to seem trite sound unexpectedly profound.
By Cary Tennis
March 21, 2007
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Larger-than-life celebrity was 39.
By David Puner
February 8, 2007
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My friend's father is just one more reason feminism exists -- but can we say that?
By Cary Tennis
January 31, 2007
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Why do obituary pages feature so few women?
By Page Rockwell
November 13, 2006
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In an excerpt from her new graphic memoir, Marjane Satrapi's music-loving great-uncle recalls the death of his cigarette-loving mother.
By Marjane Satrapi
October 18, 2006
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I had always imagined with horror what it would be like to get the news that my son was killed in Iraq. Then it happened.
By Christy Miller
September 25, 2006
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Almost 30 years since publishing the groundbreaking novel "Dancer From the Dance," one of America's treasured gay writers offers a beautiful new work on love and loss.
By Laura Miller
July 29, 2006
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This summer, savor the small pleasures: Grilled salmon, blowing cigar smoke at strangers and starting bar fights.
By Garrison Keillor
July 12, 2006
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Craig Ferguson's opening monologue is a eulogy for his father.
By H.H.
January 31, 2006
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In her extraordinary memoir, Joan Didion grieves for her family and connects with her past -- and us.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 18, 2005
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OK, so maybe there's no real answer. Still, I'm haunted by the question.
By Cary Tennis
October 5, 2005
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We're supposed to feel sad when someone dies. But what if what you really feel is relief -- or glee?
By Anneli Rufus
August 25, 2005
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Yasser Salihee was an Iraqi journalist. Joe was an American sniper. On June 24, 2005, fate brought them together on a Baghdad street.
By Phillip Robertson
July 27, 2005
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It wasn't until the fourth year after her death that I truly understood the gifts my mother -- a mess like all of us -- had left me.
By Anne Lamott
May 8, 2005
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John Paul II has been appropriated by the American right. But his "culture of life" was not the same as theirs.
By Amy Sullivan
April 2, 2005
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