Further Reading

DEATH/DYING

• Alvarez, Al, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide, Bloomsbury, London, 2002.
• Ariès, Philippe, The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes toward Death over the Last One Thousand Years, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
• Becker, Ernest, The Denial of Death, The Free Press, New York, 1973.
• Callender, Ru, Lara Dinius-Inman, Rosie Inman-Cook, Michael Jarvis, Dr John Mallatratt, Susan Morris, Judith Pidgeon and Brett Walwyn, The Natural Death Handbook, The Natural Death Centre, Winchester, and Strange Attractor Press, London, 2012.
• Critchley, Simon, Notes on Suicide, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2015.
• Doughty, Caitlin, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory, W.W. Norton, New York, 2014.
• ________________, From Here to Eternity, W.W. Norton, New York, 2017.
• Gawande, Atul, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End, Profile Books, London, 2014.
• Hitchens, Christopher, Mortality, Atlantic Books, London, 2012.
• Jarman, Derek, Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman 1989–1990, Vintage, London, 1991.
• Kalanithi, Paul, When Breath Becomes Air, The Bodley Head, London, 2016.
• Kristeva, Julia, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Columbia University Press, New York, 1980.
• Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families, Scribner, New York, 1969.
• Laqueur, Thomas W., The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015.
• Lesy, Michael, The Forbidden Zone, André Deutsch, London, 1988.
• Lofland, Lyn H., The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death, Sage, Los Angeles, 1978.
• Mitford, Jessica, The American Way of Death Revisited, Virago, London, 2000.
• Nuland, Sherwin B., How We Die, Vintage, London, 1993.
• O’Mahony, Seamus, The Way We Die Now, Head of Zeus, London, 2016.
• Terkel, Studs, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, New York Press, New York, 2001.
• Troyer, John, Technologies of the Human Corpse, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020.
• Wojnarowicz, David, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, Canongate, Edinburgh, 2017.
• Yalom, Irvin D., Existential Psychotherapy, Basic Books, New York, 1980.

AFTERMATH

• Black, Sue, All that Remains: A Life in Death, Doubleday, London, 2018.
• Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking, Fourth Estate, London, 2012.
• Ernaux, Annie, Happening, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2019.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Vintage Civil War Library, New York, 2008.
• Lloyd Parry, Richard, Ghosts of the Tsunami, Vintage, London, 2017.

ANATOMISTS/DISSECTION

• Blakely, Robert L., and Judith M. Harrington, Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteeth-Century Medical Training, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1997.
• Fitzharris, Lindsey, The Butchering Art, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2017.
• Moore, Wendy, The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery, Bantam, London, 2005.
• Park, Katharine, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books, New York, 2010.
• Richardson, Ruth, Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Penguin, London, 1988.
• Rifkin, Benjamin A., Michael J. Ackerman, and Judith Folkenberg, Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today, Thames & Hudson, London, 2006.
• Roach, Mary, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Penguin, New York, 2003.
• Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, Penguin, London, 1992. (First published 1818.)
• Worden, Gretchen, Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Blast Books, New York, 2002.

CRIME

• Botz, Corinne May, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, The Monacelli Press, New York, 2004.
• McDermid, Val, Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, Profile Books, London, 2015.
• Nelson, Maggie, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, Vintage, London, 2017.
• Simon, David, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1991.

IMAGES OF DEATH

• Benkard, Ernst, Undying Faces, Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
• Ebenstein, Joanna, Death: A Graveside Companion, Thames & Hudson, London, 2017.
• Friedrich, Ernst, War against War!, Spokesman, Nottingham, 2014 (facsimile edition of 1924 publication).
• Heyert, Elizabeth, The Travelers, Scalo, Zürich, 2006.
• Koudounaris, Paul, Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, Thames & Hudson, London, 2015.
• Marinovich, Greg, and João Silva, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, Arrow, London, 2001.
• Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others, Penguin, London, 2003.
• Thanatos Archive, Beyond the Dark Veil: Post-Mortem & Mourning Photography, Grand Central Press & Last Gasp, California, 2015.
• Wallis, Brian, Weegee: Murder Is My Business, International Center of Photography and DelMonico Books, New York, 2013.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

• Cabana, Donald A., Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996.
• Camus, Albert, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1966.
• Dow, David R., and Mark Dow, Machinery of Death: The Reality of America’s Death Penalty Regime, Routledge, New York, 2002.
• Edds, Margaret, An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr., New York University Press, New York, 2003.
• Koestler, Arthur, Dialogue With Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011.
• Lifton, Robert Jay, and Greg Mitchell, Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions, HarperCollins, New York, 2000.
• Solotaroff, Ivan, The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty, HarperCollins, New York, 2001.

CEMETERIES

• Arnold, Catharine, Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Simon & Schuster, London, 2006.
• Beesley, Ian, and David James, Undercliffe: Bradford’s Historic Victorian Cemetery, Ryburn Publishing, Halifax, 1991.
• Harrison, Robert Pogue, The Dominion of the Dead, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003.
• Swannell, John, Highgate Cemetery, Hurtwood Press, Oxted, 2010.

CRYONICS

• Ettinger, Robert C. W., The Prospect of Immortality, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1965.
• Nelson, Robert F. and Sandra Stanley, We Froze the First Man: The Startling True Story of the First Great Step toward Human Immortality, Dell, New York, 1968.
• O’Connell, Mark, To Be a Machine, Granta, London, 2017.

FOR KIDS

• Erlbruch, Wolf, Death, Duck and the Tulip, Gecko Press, Minneapolis, 2008.