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- catalog abstract "Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? answers the many questions that everyone - professional and layman alike - wants to ask. This book describes individual and societal experiences, drawing not only from the medical sciences, but also from the arcane and secretive world of the funeral industry. This book sheds some light into dark corners of our society and proves that, once again, truth is stranger than fiction.".
- catalog contributor b5997945.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? answers the many questions that everyone - professional and layman alike - wants to ask. This book describes individual and societal experiences, drawing not only from the medical sciences, but also from the arcane and secretive world of the funeral industry. This book sheds some light into dark corners of our society and proves that, once again, truth is stranger than fiction.".
- catalog description "Dying to know -- I'm dead; now what? -- Help for the living: organ, tissue and whole body donation -- My body and the pathologish: the autopsy -- Beauty in death -- The eternal flame (cremation) -- Souls on ice (cryonics) -- Wayward bodies -- Nightmares (cannibalism, shrunken heads, necrophilia) -- Going out in style -- Black tie affairs -- From earth to earth -- A hand from the grave -- Say it gently: words, sayings and poetry about the dead.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 709 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1883620074".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson, AZ : Galen Press,".
- catalog subject "306.9 20".
- catalog subject "Cremation.".
- catalog subject "Death (Biology)".
- catalog subject "Death.".
- catalog subject "Embalming.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "QP87 .I83 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dying to know -- I'm dead; now what? -- Help for the living: organ, tissue and whole body donation -- My body and the pathologish: the autopsy -- Beauty in death -- The eternal flame (cremation) -- Souls on ice (cryonics) -- Wayward bodies -- Nightmares (cannibalism, shrunken heads, necrophilia) -- Going out in style -- Black tie affairs -- From earth to earth -- A hand from the grave -- Say it gently: words, sayings and poetry about the dead.".
- catalog title "Death to dust : what happens to dead bodies? / Kenneth V. Iserson.".
- catalog type "text".