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Submitted to Contest #65
Death. It’s never something you think much about, because you never think it will happen to you... until it does. Even today on Halloween, when people celebrate the dead, you don’t think about death at all. People dress up in their costumes, laughing, indulging in sensory pleasures. They feel more alive than they have reason to feel on most other days of the year; they forget the reason for it all. The meaning is lost to the void. Even when people do imagine death, they go about it the wrong way, thinking of bloody, vengeful murderers; res...
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