The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death

by Melanie King

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Would you be buried, burned, sunk or pickled? Or turned into a diamond, embalmed like Lenin, or shot into space like Star Trek's Scotty? "The Dying Game" is a rollercoaster history of everything that has, could, and does befall a corpse - from the bizarre and macabre death rituals of ancient and modern cultures, to the morbidly fascinating biological, ethical, and legal story that begins only when we end. A brilliant book of the dead that's both gruesomely entertaining and exhaustively informative, Melanie King's in-depth investigation will show you that, as far as the physical body is concerned, death...Read more
  • ISBN10 1851685928
  • ISBN13 9781851685929
  • Publish Date 1 April 2008
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 23 April 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oneworld Publications
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English