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Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The concept of death has preoccupied people for probably as long as people have existed. Nonetheless, we are are practised at avoiding, forgetting or suppressing the inevitability of our own death. We write about death in philosophy and medicine and sociology, and in fiction too. But typically, these writings locate…

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In this extract from his new book, Getting Better, the author and poet describes the death of his beloved teenage son, Eddie