Vigor Mortis: From Fear to Fashion - Discarding the Death Taboo

by KateBerridge (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $7.29

  Examines the history of the rituals of death, and the different ways the dead are treated around the world.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $6.10

  Death is out of the closet. Mourners (and the deceased if they buy a 'pre-plan service'), now have an unprecedented range of coffins and funeral styles to choose from. This extraordinary cultural phenomenon has gone largely unremarked, despite the fact that death is now such a prominent theme in advertising and contemporary art; death sells.