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Let's face it — a whole lot of people including Dorothy have thought about suicide at some point — or at least options in death. We bet that in middle school you were asked the age-old question "Would you rather burn to death or freeze to death?
Parker, however, manages to do so with a dry wit. She makes death mundane — even boring. And, in a strange way, she manages to make suicide even less appealing than other forms of meditation might.
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