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The brave thing now: don’t write about your death

In the age of social media, ‘breaking the final taboo’ is becoming de rigueur. But death is taboo for good reason

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

Not content with Facebooking our every foible, Instagramming the births of our children and live-tweeting our daily lives, more and more of us are now making a public spectacle of dying. We’re inviting strangers not merely to ‘like’ expertly filtered photos of our breakfasts, but to admire the way we peg out.

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