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About this site
This site was created for the ThinkQuest competition. The three team members, Beth Abraham (Australia), Thijs Jacobs (Netherlands) and Kushal Dave (United States) met through the teammaker and made all contact via email and ICQ. We settled on the topic of death because it seemed to offer a lot of interdisciplinary potential and was an interesting topic, seeing as how we would all eventually fall victim to it. It provides a starting point to learn more about ourselves as human beings, and we feel that there is a tragically harmful taboo on the topic in much of Western thought that must be lifted for our spiritual growth. If you have any questions or comments, you can email us at 16665@advanced.org, but check the FAQ first.
Thanks
This site would have been very boring, plain and otherwise crummy if not for the help of many kind individuals.
| | Timmy Yu, for providing the basic code behind the life expectancy calculator (permission via email)
| | | John Caspari, Northwestern Mutual Life for some data for the life expectancy calculator
| | | Peter D. Johnson, International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau for help in finding statistics
| | | Penguin Books, publishers of the Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes for permission to use the introduction (permission via letter)
| | | Marboro Books, publishers of Monarch Notes
| | | Diane Kraft, Harper's Magazine
| | | Thijs thanks: Mr. J. le Granse, Mr. Satijn, Zane Amiralis and Pien Voortman
| | | Brendan Price for original graphics
| | | Our coaches and family for their endless help and support
| | | Kushal's friend Robin for help in research (permission via email)
| | | Neil Blick, Cathee Shultz, Mr. Beams, Dyana Penner, Bruce Ackerman for agreeing to be interviewed.
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Sources used in research and/or quoted
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Media credits
Script credits
| | Search, cookie library and main message board from Matt's Script Archive
| | Cgi-lib from Steven E. Brenner
| | All other Perl scripts, Java, JavaScript and VRML produced originally
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Quote credits
The splash page contains a random quote from a lengthy list. These quotes and content for the poetry section came from various web sites and books, including:
| | Hurford, Christopher (ed.), The Anthology of Popular Verse, London: Magpie Books, 1994.
| | | Daintith, John, et. al. (eds.), The Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.
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