Globe Spotlight report: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a new Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequalities in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored —  one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Read part 1 of the Globe Spotlight investigation.
Death in Mass., by the numbers
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Quiz: Race, education, gender may influence some divergent views about death
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