Download PDF by Harold Schechter: The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End

By Harold Schechter
ISBN-10: 0345499646
ISBN-13: 9780345499646
• loss of life anxiety–is your worry of demise general or off the size?
• You can’t take it with you . . . or are you able to? Wacky wills and peculiar bequests
• The hospice experience–going out in convenience and style
• Deathbed and funeral etiquette–how to aid the loss of life and mourn the useless with dignity
• loss of life on demand–why the right-to-die circulate could be the subsequent large thing
• “Good-bye everybody”–famous final words
• The embalmer’s art–all dressed up and nowhere to go
• backstage at your neighborhood funeral home
• replacement burial choices–from coral reefs to outer space
From the chilly, difficult proof of demise to classes within the paintings of demise good, from what occurs within the body’s final dwelling moments to what transpires within the floor or within the furnace, from near-death reviews to hypothesis at the afterlife, The complete loss of life Catalog leaves no headstone unturned.
From the alternate Paperback edition.