You can trawl through cinema and find few more beautiful, more unforced, or more fleeting representations of the bourn between the living and the dead.
Her novel Beyond Black, about a medium who is tormented by her acquaintances, both the living and the dead, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
Amid the rubble and confusion of war, the stench of the dead and wails of the living, war offers a terrible clarity.
Characters on stage include Baron Samedi, Voodoo divinity of the dead, and the zombie, a living-dead slave.
This year's fare of the living dead in cinemas and on TV has included the start of season three of The Walking Dead, films Cockneys Vs Zombies and Resident Evil: Retribution and children's animation ParaNorman.
"The people who need to be remembered most now, and helped, are the living, not the dead, especially those suffering from post traumatic stress, " she says.
Across the rattled streets of Boston, churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.
The singer has 41 million fans on Facebook and is the most popular reggae star, living or dead, on social networks, according to Starcount.
The British, despite strenuous objections to it by the Blair government, will apply the right starting in 2006 for living artists and in 2010 for dead ones.
And yet every summer legions of living-dead rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s rise up from their graves and drag their decaying carcasses across the stages of America's arenas, stadiums and county fairs.
That is the task before them: to countenance the land of the dead like Orpheus, and to carry on in the land of the living.
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As you will know (don't yawn) if you read this column, this economic malaise has been characterised by many weak businesses being put on life support and turned into the living dead, or (to use what is now a cliche, so sorry) zombies.
In almost all of them, the living dead are introduced in minute one, and by minute 10, the world is a wasteland.
In these courts we do try to do justice, to the dead and to the living.
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"We will not leave the operation until the last dead body and living person is found, " said Maj.
Demonstrators marched in countries around the world, with fury in Europe over austerity measures and rage in Asia over relentlessly low pay, the rising cost of living and hideous working conditions that have left hundreds dead in recent months alone.
Many of Mr Brands's tycoons, the living as well as the dead, share Morgan's confidence that their interests and the national interest are one and the same thing.
Any species that has managed to invent duct tape, Twinkies and smartphones stands a fighting chance against the living dead.
Why are the living dead taking over our lives, and why have so many other domains of American culture, from architects to academics to departments of the federal government, been so eager to jump on this macabre bandwagon?
Because the living dead resonate so strongly with the present cultural moment, it is no surprise that various promoters and policy entrepreneurs have used them as a "hook" for their own causes.
Hover, also 23 and living in Manhattan, was found dead in Westchester County in 1977, the 2011 news release said.
Mr. MATTHEW GUTMAN (Reporter, The Jerusalem Post): Israel often does pay to get hostages back, living or dead, and often pays exorbitant prices for it -probably prices that other countries wouldn't pay, in terms of both money and other prisoners.
The living traditionally visit their dead relatives in early November, which gives rise to a frenzied cleaning of tombs and headstones throughout the country in the second half of October.
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