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The 2017 Survey of American Fears found that just over a fifth of Americans are "afraid" or "very afraid" of dying. This fear, as noted by mortician Caitlin Doughty, is almost certainly fueled, in part, by the sanitization of death in the western world. While, in the past, relatives would keep deceased…