Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? Book

	List of Tables
	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
1	Dying to Know: Introduction	1
2	I'm Dead - Now What?	13
3	Help for the Living: Organ, Tissue, & Whole-Body Donation	61
4	The Autopsy: My Body and the Pathologist	133
5	Beauty in Death	203
6	The Eternal Flame	289
7	Souls on Ice	353
8	Wayward Bodies	381
9	Nightmares	445
10	Going Out in Style	509
11	Black Tie Affairs	535
12	From Earth to Earth	607
13	A Hand from the Grave	689
14	Say It Gently: Words, Sayings, & Poetry about the Dead	715
App. A	Twenty-Second World Medical Assembly	746
App. B	Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death, 1968	747
App. C	Uniform Determination of Death Act	749
App. D	Universal Determination of Death Statute (Proposed)	750
App. E	Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (U.S.)	751
App. E	Embalmers Classification: Types of Corpses	756
App. G	The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations for the Return of Remains to the U.S.	758
App. H	Federal Trade Commission's "Funeral Rule," 16 C.F.R. section 453	760
App. I	Selected Independent Funeral Homes Code of Good Funeral Practice	765
	Glossary	767
	Index	781