Discover more than 35 fascinating customs around death, grief, and rebirth, from Mexico’s Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) to Tibetan sky burials. Find special in-depth features on festivals, celebrations, and catacombs, plus first-person essays, respectful photography, and illustrations that reveal how the world honours the passing of loved ones.

an eye-opening tour of the varied ways cultures grapple with what lies beyond - Publisher's Weekly

This illuminating book reveals how cultures and communities around the world grieve their loved ones - with lessons we can all learn from to help us all live (and die) well.

Divided into four key chapters: Celebrating, Commemorating, Mourning, and Offering, readers will discover resting places, burials, rituals, and symbols that have been associated with death throughout time.

Inside Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth: 

• Over 35 incredible customs from cultures and communities across the planet that explore our beliefs and traditions surrounding death, grief, and rebirth
• Special in-depth features examine elements of death in greater detail including: festivals and celebrations; remarkable catacombs; symbols of death and rebirth; the world's most impressive tombs
• Insightful first-person accounts and essays from locals discussing their relationship and experiences with death
• Vibrant illustrations and photography explain the customs and rituals in a gracious manner
• Themes and events featured within the book: Jazz funerals (New Orleans); Turning of the bones (Madagascar); Burial beads (South Korea); Fantasy coffins (Ghana); Lakota soul keepers (USA); Islamic funeral customs; death wailing; the people paid to weep; Swedish death cleaning; Green burials; and more¬¨‚Ć
  
   

Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth is the ultimate self-purchase, or gift, for anyone looking to gain a fresh perspective into the ways we process death as a society and as individuals.

Details

ISBN13: 9781837580057
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 240
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Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Limited
Publication City, Country: Dublin 8, Ireland
Dimensions (cm): 21.6(H)x17.2(L)x2.4(W)753
Weight (gm): 753

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an eye-opening tour of the varied ways cultures grapple with what lies beyond.  Readers will be glad to take the trip