Remember you must die. Demystify the taboo surrounding mortality and promote ‘death positivity’. Learn to value life and living intentionally.
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Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life
Joanna Ebenstein
All the Living and the Dead
Hayley Campbell
Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World
YY Liak
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
Ilise S. Carter
No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality
Molly Conisbee
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Frances Larson
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
Sue Henger
Death: A Graveside Companion
Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
Suzanne Kelly
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
Elisabeth Bronfen
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Greg Melville
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Caitlin Doughty
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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