Word: necrologist
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...first time I learned about the evil of tobacco. It was in seventh grade health class; in between the units on exercise and diet, Mr. Cohen squeezed in a week on smoking. He showed slides of lungs blackened nearly to unrecognizability. He handed out fact sheets only a necrologist could love. He played a film showing an emphysemic old woman sitting in a rocking chair and coughing out a sad story that cast her as an ignorant victim of the smoking industry...
Eight thousand years ago, says Necrologist Moore, the unknown inhabitants of the Indian peninsula seem to have had no fear of death, regarded earthly life as a kind of spiritual education, death as release for the soul to return home. But from then until the coming of Christ, mankind grew more & more entangled in material things, and correspondingly loth to leave them...
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