Life Experience with Death: Relation to Death Attitudes and to the Use of Death-Related Memories

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• The data collection for this project was completed by Ashley Hux and funded as part of the University of Florida University Scholars Program. We also very much appreciate the support of the hospice organizations in North Central Florida who partnered with us to complete this research.
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