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On Denise Riley

The LRB Podcast

CHAPTER

The Strangest Things About Death

"I couldn't imagine believing that somebody had died because I've seen all anybody who's been close to me, he was died," she says. "For me, and maybe it's a sort of strange bias perspective or just a hangover from my Catholicism terrible lapse Catholic." In Russian Orthodox funerals with open caskets, people would kiss in the corpse; rituals were 'incredible' She thinks we generally have drifted away from these compulsory rituals and think we are the worst for it.

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