Death and the Afterlife Hardcover – January 1, 2000 by Brian Innes
 
A fascinating exploration of the rituals, beliefs, art, and mythology humans have used to understand death and the afterlife plunders a wide range of practices and traditions--Mexico's Day of the Dead, Victorian funeral customs, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the burial of Pharaohs, cryonics, and the Bible--to show a variety of human responses to death.
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