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Death Part 3: Our Attitude Towards Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Hayden Ramsay
Hayden Ramsay*
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Polding Centre, 133 Liverpool Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
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New Blackfriars , Volume 86 , Issue 1004 , July 2005 , pp. 418 - 424
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Copyright © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2005, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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