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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,829 ratings — published 2017
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,882 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,632 ratings — published 2003
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,477 ratings — published 2014
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,952 ratings — published 1969
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.41 — 860,795 ratings — published 2016
The Hour of Our Death (Oxford Paperbacks)
by (shelved 11 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 671 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 — 49,922 ratings — published 2019
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.55 — 463 ratings — published 2015
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,701 ratings — published 1963
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,157 ratings — published 1973
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,156 ratings — published 2018
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,576 ratings — published 2005
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,733 ratings — published 2022
Death, Society, and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.96 — 181 ratings — published 1977
Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,231 ratings — published 1974
Death: A Graveside Companion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.48 — 383 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 — 811 ratings — published 2014
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,265 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 — 9,541 ratings — published 1994
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,363 ratings — published 1997
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,267 ratings — published 2013
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.14 — 855 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 — 8,574 ratings — published 2017
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,633 ratings — published 2017
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.97 — 182 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 — 29,459 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 3.69 — 116 ratings — published 1979
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.40 — 235 ratings — published 1994
Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2007
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,116 ratings — published 2001
Necropolis: London and Its Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,265 ratings — published 2006
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 — 702 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 — 8,142 ratings — published 2004
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,788 ratings — published 2019
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,653 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 — 2,443 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 4.14 — 268,718 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 — 456 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 — 7,613 ratings — published 2008
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as thanatology)
avg rating 3.51 — 946 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 — 1,125 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 — 6,715 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 — 539 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 — 2,118 ratings — published 2007
