Rites, death and thanatopraxy

ISBN-13: 9786208985097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 116 str.

Olga Elena Ramirez Poggi

Opis

This little book tells us a little about some funeral rites and customs around the world and also tells how they are changing over time and how the precept of death was totally different from the current one. It also explains the different types of death such as: violent death, natural death, sudden death, apparent death, clinical death, brain death and cell death. And gives us an overview of what is thanatopraxy and thanatopraxy aesthetics. Finishing our tour through the artificial processes of preservation of the corpse and mummification.