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R.I.P.

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R.I.P.: Baby Bird

  • Lee Matalone
  • November 20, 2018
So much land, so much quiet.
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R.I.P.: Labor In, Labor Out

  • Lee Matalone
  • May 2, 2018
Being reminded of your mortality on a constant basis makes your life so much better.
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R.I.P.: A Mortician’s Tale

  • Lee Matalone
  • March 12, 2018
[W]hat could possibly be more cleansing than accepting that death is an unremarkable part of life?
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R.I.P.: Who Died in This House?

  • Lee Matalone
  • October 30, 2017
Death stigmatizes a property. I also believe that it stigmatizes a person.
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R.I.P.: Inauguration Day

  • Lee Matalone
  • January 23, 2017
Instead of mourning in solitude, let us sob together. Let us soak communally in our fear. Let us hyperventilate, our breasts heaving in unison.
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R.I.P.: Naiveté

  • Lee Matalone
  • August 16, 2016
Nearly a decade ago, on what was then my first and only day in Paris, I saw a dead person for the first time.
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R.I.P.: Odd Habits

  • Lee Matalone
  • July 19, 2016
I would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.
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R.I.P.: Fantastic Casket

  • Lee Matalone
  • April 4, 2016
As far as the market right now, this is the moment to own it on caskets because we have the baby boomer generation coming up, and they’re doubling the number of deaths that are happening.
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R.I.P.: The Time Is Near

  • Lee Matalone
  • January 21, 2016
This wasn’t my first attempt to commune with the dead.
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R.I.P.: Facts

  • Lee Matalone
  • November 17, 2015
I wanted to write about death to get closer to it, to face it clear-eyed. Now I had the opportunity.
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R.I.P.: The Museum of Death

  • Lee Matalone
  • August 11, 2015
What strikes me is not the necrophilia or the fetal pigs or the spoon designed for scooping out human brain matter, but rather the mundane.
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