The Stench of Death Has a Sunny Side
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Although most people have not had the misfortune of smelling their own dead, we have all encountered the smell of death: the stench of roadkill, the remains of the rat in the wall, the bloated fish on the beach, the old carcass hidden in the tall grass, or the slimy head of lettuce in the crisper. So powerfully repugnant is the smell of death that even rats held in captivity bury the bodies of dead rats because of it.
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