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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20020728
Author:Miller, Karyn

Byline: KARYN MILLER

I first encountered death through books: the violent decapitation of Julien Sorel in Stendhal's The Red and the Black and the slow poisoning of the central character in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. I can't remember the first funeral I attended. I have been to so many that the first one is now a blank.

My first personal experience of death was when my mother suffered a stroke while shopping in Tesco.?t was a very British way to go.

My father, too, died suddenly. He had developed Alzheimer's disease but remained living in his own house. He ...

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