Some recent research suggests that, by thinking about death so often, the Bhutanese may be on to something.

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Thinking about death clarifies your life.

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And I was thinking about her life and thinking about life and death, and the things that you do think about when someone is passing.

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Redstone has been thinking a lot about death and estate planning lately.

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He also said what many are thinking about the looming report by Lord Hutton into the death of Dr David Kelly.

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With but few exceptions (the now retired Barney Frank as an example), Democratic office holders seem reluctant, if not positively scared to death, to even look at thinking about possibly supporting any of the long-standing liberal traditions and positions of my party.

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Moncur says most web-literate people are still some way from death's door, statistically speaking, so are not thinking about their online legacy.

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The other day I started thinking about certainties those things you can count on no matter what, like death and taxes (after all, Monday, April 18th was the deadline for paying our 2010 taxes).

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Thinking about witches began to change in the Fourteenth Century, particularly in the wake of the Black Death of 1347-1350, after which Europeans became increasingly fearful of conspiracies by maleficent underground forces, mostly imaginary.

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"Death was around and I kept thinking, 'Gosh, it would be great to talk about this and I feel like nobody is talking about this correctly around me, '" he says.

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