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Introduction | ix | |
1. | Respecting the Dead | 1 |
Artifacts for the Afterlife | 1 | |
Living Death for Wives and Servants | 4 | |
Universal Treatment of the Dying | 9 | |
Displaying the Deceased | 13 | |
The Vigil and Other Customs | 18 | |
The Funeral: A Good Send-off | 21 | |
Wailing and Other Demonstrations | 28 | |
Mourning, Noon, and Night | 30 | |
Prayer: A Power Tool | 33 | |
2. | Heaven, Hell, or Reincarnation? | 37 |
Dead Boring Underworlds | 37 | |
Soul: Food for Thought | 40 | |
Reincarnation: Back to the Beginning | 43 | |
The Underworld Gets Upgraded | 47 | |
For Heaven's Sake | 50 | |
Is the Hereafter Sexist? | 57 | |
What the Hell! | 60 | |
Is Heaven Elitist? | 62 | |
Dead Reckoning: The Judgment of Sin | 64 | |
Eternity Is a Long, Long Time | 70 | |
3. | What Do You Do With the Remains? | 75 |
Grave Concerns | 75 | |
The Physiology of Death | 78 | |
Burials and Bones | 82 | |
Hang-ups About Cremation | 84 | |
Mummification: Breaking the Dust-to-Dust Circuit | 90 | |
Miracle Busting | 97 | |
Early Modern Pickling | 99 | |
The World's Most Famous Embalmees | 102 | |
Cryonics: A Cool Way of Preservation | 106 | |
Day-to-Day Embalming | 109 | |
Funky Exits | 113 | |
4. | Burial Grounds, Coffins, and Monuments | 118 |
The One-Upmanship of Death | 118 | |
Rise and Fall of the Churchyard | 123 | |
"Garden Cemeteries" and Beyond | 128 | |
Buried Under What Marker? | 135 | |
Rest in (Disturbed) Peace | 138 | |
Where Are the Famous Buried? | 142 | |
Buried in What Container? | 144 | |
The Eco Argument | 149 | |
Rise of the Undertaker--The "Dismal Trader" | 152 | |
R.I.P.-off? | 154 | |
The Funeral Service | 161 | |
5. | When You've Got to Go ... | 163 |
When Will It Happen? | 163 | |
How Will It Happen? | 167 | |
Done to Death | 169 | |
Heretics, Deviants, Witches | 171 | |
Man's (Ingenious) Inhumanity to Man | 174 | |
Kill Thy Neighbor | 179 | |
Oops, Accident! | 181 | |
Cause of Death: Stupidity | 184 | |
Odds Against Death by Mishap | 190 | |
Suicide: The Self-Destruct Button | 191 | |
Microbes: Natural-Born Killers | 199 | |
Death and the "Little Death" | 205 | |
How Do You Know You're Dead? | 208 | |
6. | Dead Nervous (or) Nervous of the Dead | 212 |
Precautions Against Death | 212 | |
Welcome Home to the Dead | 216 | |
Ghosts, Ghouls--and the Undead | 219 | |
Attractions of Death | 225 | |
Is There Anyone There? | 228 | |
Rest in Pieces | 232 | |
Grave Robbing: The Oldest Profession? | 236 | |
Body Snatching: A Nice Little Earner | 239 | |
Buried Alive | 244 | |
NDEs: Back to the Future? | 250 | |
7. | Not so Grim Reminders | 253 |
Quipping Death into Shape | 253 | |
Words, Words, Words | 257 | |
Last Words ... Maybe | 262 | |
Goodwill, Ill Will | 266 | |
Obits: The Smallest Biographies | 274 | |
The Epitaph: Final, Final Words | 281 | |
Afterword | 291 | |
Index | 295 |
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