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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico's Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular -- and, upon close inspection, peculiar -- set of 'respectful' rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.

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This how-to guide presents today's most complete coverage of performing, interpreting, & reporting post-mortem examinations. In addition to discussing the basics of the specialty, this lasting & useful reference features information on the performance of specialized autopsy procedures.

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Aucune civilisation, des plus frustes aux plus "évoluées", n'a pu esquiver l'aspect dramatique du devenir du corps mort. Ses laideurs et ses puanteurs qui annoncent de pourrissement de la chair signent la dissolution de l'être. D'abord, retenir l'image du vivant est une démarche quasi universelle, ainsi que le vérifie la coutume extrêmement répandue de la toilette du mort. Mais très vite, c'est avec la pourriture qu'il faut jouer : horrible et fascinante, elle oriente tous les rites funéraires. Selon le trajet symbolique propre à chaque culture, tout est mis en oeuvre pour l'apprivoiser (exposition du cadavre), la cacher (linceul, sarcophage), l'enrayer définitivement (embaumement, momification, incinération, ingestion cannibalique, cyrogénisation) ou seulement la retarder (soins corporels, thanatopraxie), ou bien l'accélérer (exposition, abandon dans les tours de silence). Mais derrière tous ces usages se dessine une exigence universelle : stabiliser dans un support indestructible, dur et pur, l'être du défunt. Ce stade marque la réconciliation de la communauté avec son mort, une communauté apaisée qui peut enfin oublier que mourir, c'est pourrir. Louis-Vincent Thomas est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur la mort, notamment Anthropolie de la mort, paru aux Editions Payot.

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