Death's Summer Coat
eBook - ePub

Death's Summer Coat

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Death's Summer Coat

About this book

Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Meet the New (Old) Death
  5. Chapter 1: Dead and Knowing It
  6. Chapter 2: Eat Your Dead (and Other Advice)
  7. Chapter 3: Through a Glass, Darkly
  8. Chapter 4: Dying Victorian: Memento Mori, Hair Jewellery and Crape
  9. Chapter 5: Death at the Anatomy Theatre
  10. Chapter 6: Death and the Doctor
  11. Chapter 7: Death Comes to Dinner
  12. Epilogue: Beginning at the End
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. Copyright