Death: A User's Guide
by Tom Hickman
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Forget manuals for cars and computers, death is the big event you really need to be clued-up for and there's just no excuse for slacking. Death - A User's Guide, is a one-stop shop about death and beyond - an irreverent encyclopedia of the more bizarre aspects of the subject: the history of death; the physiology of death; death in literature and art; suicide; superstitions; near death experiences; the language of death; the rituals of death; secrets of the undertaker; the afterlife; show more reincarnation; famous last words; bizarre burials; grave robbing; amusing epitaphs; strange ways to die; and enough curious facts and figures to bury a man. Did you know... - An Australian woman has had her husband's ashes sewn in to her breast implants so she can keep them close to her heart. - Ben Jonson after begging Charles I for a square foot of ground in Poets' Corner was taken at his word and buried standing up. - 60s guru Timothy Leary chose to have his death broadcast live on the internet. - While Jews traditionally abstain from sex during mourning, the African Nyakyusa tribe practice ritual copulation at the grave side. show lessTags
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Tom Hickman is a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London, specialising in public law and human rights cases.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Reference, History
- DDC/MDS
- 306.9 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Institutions pertaining to death
- LCC
- HQ1073 .H53 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Thanatology. Death. Dying
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 2
