In South Korea, companies sell mock funerals for college students. The young people write their wills, put on the traditional Korean burial clothes and have themselves nailed into a coffin — temporarily, of course. The point is to have them imagine their death, and in so doing, reorder their priorities in life.

Americans are loath to think about death, especially of the young. And so the news that The Associated Press has written an advance obituary for Britney Spears caused a sm ...

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