At its least harmful, the message players wore across their chests Sunday trivializes a life-altering situation as inconsequential and secondary for those who lack the fame and platform to remind us of the permanent effects.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
In an effort to increase participation, which dropped during the COVID pandemic and has yet to fully recover, the California Coastal Commission will offer some impressive prizes hidden in small 4-inch wooden chests at cleanup sites around the state.
Average caskets run between $2,000 and $5,000 in the United States, but some made of mahogany, bronze or copper can cost upward of $10,000, according to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Consumer Advice department.
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Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
The group staged a mock funeral procession in January 2021, with doctors carrying caskets on their shoulders, representing 384 people who had died in the nation’s smallest state of an overdose the previous year.
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