Recs if you like Home Funeral Ceremonies: A primer to honor the dying and the dead with reverence, light-heartedness and grace...

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.

how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between

Nonfiction books on the way we care for the dead and dying - always looking for recommendations!