They were certainly reflecting about death in a way that their fellow-creatures did not.
Actually, by suggesting I think about death once a day, Ura was going easy on me.
In Bhutanese culture, one is expected to think about death five times a day.
Some recent research suggests that, by thinking about death so often, the Bhutanese may be on to something.
"I would buy a book now and then about death and dying, " he recalls.
If a doctor is not comfortable talking about death, he can turn to others for help.
For today, I want to set the tone for how we talk about death.
"It was important to know from the very beginning what he thinks about death, " Amenabar said.
For all its success, Facebook now faces a bit of an existential crisis: What to do about death?
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If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and there's nobody talking about death panels.
He created a page on LifeInsure's site listing "19 Things You Probably Don't Know About Death, " and posted it to Digg.
Redstone has been thinking a lot about death and estate planning lately.
Some business owners do not know about succession planning, while others think they are too young to worry about death or incapacity.
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The openness in which Jordan talked about death and her desire to ward off the cancer that was killing her struck a powerful chord in me.
Duerson's son Tregg said that the analysis of his father's brain -- the answers to questions about death -- has given the family a measure of closure.
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She added that people should be able to make decisions about death for themselves but warned that without safeguards, the process was "dangerous and open to abuse".
Nearly all of it has been about death and misery.
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You know what they say about death and taxes, right?
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Answering questions about death for children can be challenging -- it's important to be truthful, give answers that are appropriate for their ages and listen carefully to their feelings.
Professor Linda Woodhead, professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University and co-host of the Westminster Faith Debates, said modern medicine advances had seen a change in people's attitudes about death.
Lukas Radbruch, president of the European Association for Palliative Care, recalls that when he started working as a doctor in the field 20 years ago, Germans did not want to talk about death.
Words still mean something and just as Republicans went far over the line last year with their accusations about death panels in the health bill, they are doing it again this year with taxes.
"I'm very happy with our progress, but if I've learned anything about human psychology, it's people don't actually want to face or make decisions about death in any way that they don't have to, " said Toeman.
In some instances, he wrote about death.
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It is about the death penalty, about a society's struggle to reconcile its religious beliefs with its growing frustration over violent crime.
Jackson talked with her about his death during "a deep conversation" 14 years ago about "the circumstances of my father's death, " she wrote, referring to Elvis Presley.
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