Recs if you like Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funerary Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America...

Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.

death-positive reads for the morbidly curious

Nonfiction books about ghosts, mourning practices, and everything spooky.