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Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country - and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of inevitable end. This book proposes a different way of understanding our last transition.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations 1. Here (?) We Are 2. Practicing Death: Some Rituals of Everyday Life 3. Good Death, Bad Death (I): In Other Times and Places 4. Good Death, Bad Death (II): Here and Now 5. Corpsed Persons 6. Abusing and Eating the Dead 7. Too Many Dead: The Plague and Other Mass Deaths 8. Down to Earth and Up in Flames 9. Journey of the Dead 10. Living Through Notes Sources Cited Index

On Our Way

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 20/05/2004
      ISBN13: 9780520218802, 978-0520218802
      ISBN10: 0520218809
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country - and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of inevitable end. This book proposes a different way of understanding our last transition.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations 1. Here (?) We Are 2. Practicing Death: Some Rituals of Everyday Life 3. Good Death, Bad Death (I): In Other Times and Places 4. Good Death, Bad Death (II): Here and Now 5. Corpsed Persons 6. Abusing and Eating the Dead 7. Too Many Dead: The Plague and Other Mass Deaths 8. Down to Earth and Up in Flames 9. Journey of the Dead 10. Living Through Notes Sources Cited Index

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