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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Don DeLillo

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Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
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New York City
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Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
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