This is a scientist's investigation into what happens to us when we die: the disposal of the corpses, the preservation of the dead, funerary rites and rituals in art and religion, the use and abuse of the dead and the ways in which we dispose of them.
- ISBN10 0312200501
- ISBN13 9780312200503
- Publish Date 15 March 1999 (first published 28 May 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English