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Hayley Campbell

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    You aren’t born knowing you will die. Someone has to break the news. I asked my dad if it was him, but he can’t remember.
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    Maybe death came to you in the form of a goldfish or a grandparent.
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    Just like in video games, the bodies disappear.
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    On average, 6,324 people in the world die every hour – that’s 151,776 every day, about 55.4 million a year. That’s more than the population of Australia falling off the planet every six months.
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    the food in the fridge that outlasted its owner
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    ‘The first dead body you see should not be someone you love,’ she said.
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    He told me that when Bentham was alive he used to keep his future glass eyeballs in his pocket, getting them out at parties for a laugh.
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    It’s the first smell of death I’ve encountered today and it’s instantly recognisable. Denis Johnson wrote about this smell, in a story called Triumph Over the Grave: he said that ethyl mercaptan, the first in a series of compounds brought out in the process of putrefaction, is routinely added to gas to make leaks detectable by scent. The practice originated in the 1930s, after workers noticed vultures in California would circle the thermal drafts around leaks in pipelines. They ran tests on their product to see what had attracted these birds, ordinarily lured by the odour of decay, and found trace amounts of this compound.
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    Dean Fisher, who I had interviewed the previous year for a WIRED magazine article about a new, more environmentally sound method of cremating bodies with super-heated water and lye instead of fire. The process – known as alkaline hydrolysis – was only commercially legal in a dozen or so US states at the time
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    William Harvey, whose published work in 1628 proved the circulation of blood, dissected his own father and sister
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