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<p>Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.</p>


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<article><strong>Candi K. Cann</strong>, a former Fulbright Scholar, is a professor at Baylor University with a research focus on death, dying, and grief, as well as the intersections of marginality, diversity, and death technologies. She is the author of the book <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051118/augmented/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-ga-category="outbound-link" data-vars-ga-action="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051118/augmented/"><em>augmented</em></a>, from which this article is adapted.</article>
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