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Informed Final Choices
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    • Our Vision & Mission
    • IFC History
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  • News
  • Events
  • Workshops
    • Art & Dying: Embracing Loss & Mortality
    • Advance Directives Workshop
    • Bereavement Workshop
    • Creating A Community Based End-of-Life Support Group
    • How to Host a Death Cafe
    • Green Burial Workshop
    • Family-Directed Home Funeral: Responsibilities and Practical Skills
    • Request a Workshop
  • Useful Resources
    • Issues You Will Face
    • Home Funeral Choices
    • Disposition Choices
    • Documents
    • Organizations, Associations, and Materials
    • Recommended Reading and Viewing
    • Advance Directive for Dementia
    • Poetry
  • Take Action
    • Know Your Rights
    • Start an End-of-Life Group
  • Contact IFC
    • Contact Us
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What the Living Do

by Marie Howe

Marie Howe is the author of The Good Thief (1988), a collection of poems, and the editor of In the Company of My Solitude, a prose anthology about AIDS, to be published this fall.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/atlpoets/howe9404.htm

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