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“He [Claudio Lomnitz] writes that Mexicans "have powers of healing, and of healing what is certainly the United States' most painfully chronic ailment: its denial of death . . . . and its abandonment of the bereaved to a kind of solitary confinement.”

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Book:From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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