Word: dead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the dead and wounded were taken away in ambulances, police officers cordoned off the area. Left behind was the van, which still had a can of Mountain Dew on its dashboard and a red ribbon swinging from its rearview mirror. As the officers dispersed the onlookers, the faces of many of the people were streaked with tears and blood and some seemed to be in an ugly mood. Then the police and the citizens of Greensboro prepared for a weekend of tension and soul searching...
Reported Clark: "In a single one-hour period, I saw four dead bodies in the Sakaew camp. One was lying in the muddy track that runs down the middle of the camp, covered by a blanket. Nobody paid any attention to it. Another was that of a woman who was already in rigor mortis, her feet sticking stiffly out from the end of a yellow cloth her husband had thrown over her. The husband sat in a daze while people in the adjoining makeshift shelters not more than four feet away were going about their business of cooking, eating...
...when the psychiatrist raised eyebrows by concluding that death is not so final, after all. "When people die," Kübler-Ross declared, "they very simply shed their body, much as a butterfly comes out of its cocoon." Her growing conviction that the living could communicate with the dead led her to dabble in spiritualism at her retreat north of San Diego. Now Kübler-Ross, who refers to herself as an "immortal visionary and modern cartographer of the River Styx," has apparently lost any remaining credibility with her professional colleagues. The reason: her close association with Jay Barham...
...Miss H. would be put out by his absence from the office. Perhaps the reason lay in a sort of Tolstoyan anger at the fact of death; it is certain also that he loved his mother passionately. There the body lay in the house. The result was horror. The dead woman's body burst in the coffin and was borne dripping from the bedroom...
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