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Death is a significant part of life, although this is so, many try to cover the emotions felt when a close friend or a relative has passed away, while others will mourn for weeks on end. Death is painful, happy, sad, any words a person could say. Some take lives, others save lives. To some people death is just another word in the dictionary. Some become immortal for the stories they write.
Tim O'Brien's book, The Things They Carried, describes death as, "When someone died, it wasn't quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy and because they called it brother names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself" (O'Brien 20). O'Brien uses these terms for the following reasons: a soldier had to do this to keep his sanity to save himself from emotional let downs and having to cope for someone's death.
In Capote's In Cold Blood, Perry says to Dick, "I think there must be......

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