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Death's summer coat : what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living / Brandy Schillace.

by Schillace, Brandy.

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Pegasus Books, 2016.

Death -- Social aspects.

Death in popular culture.

9781605989389 (hc.)

160598938X (hc.)

Alternate title:

What the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (page 239-258) and index.

Dead and knowing it -- Eat your dead (and other advice) -- Through a glass, darkly -- Dying Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape -- Death at the anatomy theatre -- Death and the doctor -- Death comes to dinner.

"What we can learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places. Death is something we all confront -- it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. We, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together -- conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Brandy Schillace works as a Research Associate for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History at Case Western Reserve University."--Provided by publisher.

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