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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Everybody's Dead Edition
Published 16 years, 10 months ago
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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of celebrity deaths, starting with Michael Jackson and the lesser lights – Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays – eclipsed by his passing, the way obituaries have changed in the internet era, and what makes a good obit.
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