This book features an extensive range of 17th and 18th-century etchings and engravings of skeletons, the Grim Reaper, death masks, ghosts, corpses and an extens

The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death.

Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be

Review: "More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1,

In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literat