The Corpse: A HistoryMcFarland, 2015-09-17 - 368 psl. Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the "recycling" of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered. |
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... woman cataloged in Mad and Magnificent Yankees who had a $30,000 casket specially designed and built over a period of years in the late ¡800s: “Mrs. Hiller was so proud of it she had it set up in the front parlor. When her friends came ...
... woman, the young may relax their guard a little, considering the death to be in the natural order of things. If the body belongs to a twenty-year-old man who was struck by a car or a thirty-year-old woman stalked and killed by a serial ...
... woman's hair should never be plaited for burial or the devil will send his demons to unbraid it even before the body is in the grave. Burial face down was intended to prevent a witch or vampire from causing further trouble. Through a ...
... woman closed the eyes of the dead, superstition dictated that unless she crossed herself on her stomach, she might give birth to a blind infant. In Kentucky, it was believed that if a pregnant woman merely looked at a dead person, her ...
... woman at a wake. In The Space of Death, Michel Ragon points out, “The dead are no longer feared, but we continue to shut them away in co‡ns, which have been nailed down or (even more securely) screwed down, and which are then enclosed ...
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Part II The Last Rites of a Corpse | 47 |
Part III The Corpse and the Causes of Death | 105 |
Part IV The Recycling of the Corpse | 175 |
Part V The Keeping of the Corpse | 231 |
Part VI Respect for the Corpse | 275 |
References | 313 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 345 |