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Mon 10 Oct 2009Women rarely seen dead in obituaries
Reading obituaries is a strangely comforting experience if you have two X chromosomes about your person
IT IS wonderful to know that women do not die. That last week not one woman died in the whole of Ireland. Truly we are the superior sex, taking vacations from death at will. Have women given up dying altogether? If you were to judge by the obituary pages of the nation’s newspapers you certainly would think so.
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