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  • In July 2003, when U.S. forces killed Saddam Hussein's sons, Odai and Qusai, in a gunbattle in northern Iraq, the U.S. military released graphic after-death photographs in an effort to prove to Iraqis that they were dead.

    AP source: DNA IDs bin Laden, wife named him in raid 2011

  • But more significant, according to advocates, home after-death care is also more meaningful for the living.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • His after-death, when he was already gone, when he was – I imagine, I hope, I know – preoccupied by the work (whatever that looks like when one is spirit, shadow, essence) of ensuring that I would make this journey whole and strong and that I would come out more whole, and more strong.

    Smudge | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • The smudge is the residue, and it is only the residue of his body, and it is only there because of his after-death.

    Smudge | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • A movement toward home after-death care has convinced thousands of Americans to deal with their own dead.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In July 2003, when U.S. forces killed Saddam Hussein's sons, Odai and Qusai, in a gunbattle in northern Iraq, the U.S. military released graphic after-death photographs in an effort to prove to Iraqis that they were dead.

    AP source: DNA IDs bin Laden, wife named him in raid 2011

  • A nonprofit organization called Crossings maintains that besides saving lots of money, home after-death care is greener than traditional burials — bodies pumped full of carcinogenic chemicals, laid in metal coffins in concrete vaults under chemically fertilized lawns — which mock the biblical concept of "dust to dust."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Unable to explain consciousness in the brain, it is easy to see why conventional science ignores out-of-body, or after-death consciousness, rejecting even the possibility of their occurrence.

    Deepak Chopra: End-of-Life Brain Activity - A Sign of the Soul? 2010

  • However one controversial theory of in-the-brain consciousness can also in principle explain possible out-of-body and after-death consciousness.

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

  • Unable to fathom a rational explanation for out-of-body and/or after-death consciousness, modern science ignores such reports.

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

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