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We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.

in Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

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