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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,011 ratings — published 2014
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,501 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,741 ratings — published 2003
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.49 — 226,839 ratings — published 2014
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,897 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.41 — 852,833 ratings — published 2016
The Hour of Our Death (Oxford Paperbacks)
by (shelved 11 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 667 ratings — published 1977
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,607 ratings — published 2019
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.55 — 460 ratings — published 2015
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,688 ratings — published 1963
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,506 ratings — published 2022
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,924 ratings — published 1973
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,932 ratings — published 2018
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,431 ratings — published 2005
Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,219 ratings — published 1974
Death: A Graveside Companion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.48 — 379 ratings — published 2017
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.63 — 809 ratings — published 2014
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,256 ratings — published 1997
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.80 — 646 ratings — published 2016
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,502 ratings — published 1994
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,358 ratings — published 1997
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,246 ratings — published 2013
Death, Society, and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.96 — 181 ratings — published 1977
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.14 — 848 ratings — published 2004
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.57 — 8,490 ratings — published 2017
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,617 ratings — published 2017
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.96 — 181 ratings — published 2015
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,095 ratings — published 2014
Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.55 — 527 ratings — published 2011
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.70 — 115 ratings — published 1979
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.41 — 234 ratings — published 1994
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,114 ratings — published 2001
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.14 — 700 ratings — published 2007
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,114 ratings — published 2004
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,171 ratings — published 2018
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,427 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.14 — 259,209 ratings — published 1886
Death: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 122 ratings — published 2016
The Victorian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.02 — 453 ratings — published 2014
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.98 — 55 ratings — published 1996
The Corpse: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.74 — 47 ratings — published 1996
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,582 ratings — published 2008
Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2007
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.51 — 945 ratings — published 2013
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,122 ratings — published 1997
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,699 ratings — published 1994
The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.84 — 538 ratings — published 2009
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,113 ratings — published 2007
Necropolis: London and Its Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,255 ratings — published 2006
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,273,534 ratings — published 1997
