Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times

At the funeral home: ‘I am not in the business of death’

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goc: <a href='http://framework.latimes.com/2013/04/15/sebastiao-salgado-images-of-unspoiled-nature-in-genesis/#comment-79789' title='View the entire comment by goc'>This is a tremendous story
Dewey: <a href='http://framework.latimes.com/2010/10/07/chile-miner-rescue/#comment-79768' title='View the entire comment by Dewey'>Oh my goodness! Amazing article
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Posted By: Times Editors
Posted On: 3:32 p.m. | May 9, 2011

Most people try not to think about death, but Martha Castañeda lives with it every day. She associates death with suffering and does whatever she can to hide its signature. Read Thomas Curwen’s full story.

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