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Death
Our own mortality both fascinates and repels us.
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Journalist and photographer discuss making portraits of terminally ill patients
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Body from the Chimu people of Peru
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Aztec depiction of religious sacrifice
Death at the nursery window
Early 19th century etching by Thomas Rowlandson
Meditating on the corpse of a beautiful young woman
Widely published drawing of Napoleon's body the day after his death
The last moments of Victoria’s beloved Prince Albert
The Museum of London's Hedley Swain
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Reminder of the transience of life
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The Cryonics Institute's Chrissie de Rivaz
Is death still as certain as taxes?
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A play that crosses time and territory to find answers to questions of identity and matters of life and death.
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Limestone jar for preserving internal organs
Tibetan drawing of the Lord of Death
Notorious trio who killed a boy to sell his corpse
Artist Gachet's cataclysmic painting of a crash in which he was injured
Created in the 18th century, re-painted and re-used six times
Etching of a destitute girl throwing herself from a bridge
A man in both death and life