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

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

by KateBerridge (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Published: 25 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 1861974116
ISBN 13: 9781861974112

Media Reviews
Brilliantly odd and sympathetically clever -- Lucinda Lambton * The Spectator *
Full of fascinating and unexpectedly lively stuff * The New Statesman *
Vigor Mortis glitters with ideas and insights * The Guardian *
Author Bio
Kate Berridge is a brilliant young journalist who has written for all the national broadsheets, Vogue, Harpers & Queen and many other glossy magazines. This is her first book. She has made her own funeral video and keeps a skeleton by her desk instead of wearing a watch...