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‘Last Flight Home’ Moves Us by Involving Us

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Christopher Campbell
Jan 25, 2022
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The idea of attending your own funeral or wake has been employed as a joke premise for movies and sitcom episodes, and it tends to be depicted as a narcissistic endeavor. Living wakes and “pre-funerals,” which do actually exist, definitely seem vain, but not all circumstances of celebrating a person’s life before they die are so egocentric. Ondi Timoner…

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