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September 2001
The Art Of Dying
by Walter Armstrong
In 1989, with only months to live, Keith Haring painted this beauty,
gave it the beguiling title "Unfinished Painting" and presented it to a
friend as a wedding gift. The canvas' left half weeps as it contemplates
a radiant eternity, and you could look at that blue forever; the right
half is blank, and you make of this empty mirror what you will. Haring
has bequeathed us a typically subversive exercise in facing -- even
embracing -- death.
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Words to Die By
by Walter Armstrong
"Man has created death," W.B. Yeats immortally wrote. And while
wild-eyed poets and other artistic types are famous for living in
fantasy worlds, their compulsion to create can lead them into those
dark, too-real regions of mind where the rest of us fear to tread.
Death is one such place. POZ asked eight artists and activists with HIV to share what they see there.
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Death in Hand
by Angelo Ragaza and Bill Strubbe
AIDS fired up the assisted-suicide debate -- until HIVers traded in
the hemlock for HAART. But as combos fail, self-deliverance is back on
the agenda.
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The Way We Die Now
by Tim Murphy
AIDS is over, HIVers are living to ripe old ages, right? Not quite. POZ asked for autopsies of five who "died of AIDS" only to find that they top killers now aren't always HIV
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D.I.Y. Death
by Greg Lugliani
Want a way out because the pain is too much? Or just planning for the worst? Nursie has the plastic bag and pills to do the job.
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