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The roots of inequality, racism, and social marginalization are all grounded in our fear of death.

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The Order hope(s) to get us all a little more comfortable with the idea of death, the rituals around it and the inevitability of it all.

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The Order’s growing “death movement” is a reaction against the sanitization of death that has persisted in American culture since the 1800s.

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