[Funerals to Die For 01] • The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever by Benjamin, Kathy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Hilarious History of Inhumation

The First Burials Not-So-Final Resting Places City of the Dead Catacombs The Terracotta Army Drinks Are on the Dead Guy Undead Burial Precautions Burn, Baby, Burn Interior Decorating for the Creepy Postmortem Photography Stiffs and Science Death Is a Hairy Situation Smell Good or Die Trying The Number One Postmortem Beauty Tip The First Mausoleum Self-Mummification Suttee Is Sucky Hanging Around after Death Funerary Cannibalism Mortal Combat Can’t Touch This Does This Mask Make Me Look Dead? The Original Frankenstein’s Monsters

Chapter 2: Death Around the World

Superstitions from Six Feet Under I’m Too Sexy for This Coffin One Last Joyride Funeral Fashion Body Exposure Tower of Silence Death Is for the Birds You’re Standing on Grandma The Never-Ending Funeral The Predeath Party King Me The Search for Skeletons Making a Splash in the Afterlife The Least You Can Do Stripper Funerals Dead Dance Party Fantasy Coffins Postmortem Marriages Saying Goodbye to Fido

Chapter 3: Not-So-Solemn Superlatives

The Most Popular Cemetery Name The Largest Cemetery The Funniest Cemetery The Most Expensive Patches of Dirt in the World The Most Expensive Coffins The Largest Funerals The Fastest Hearses The Most Beautiful Tombstones The Most Bitter Cemetery The Smallest Tombstone in the World The Largest Tombstone in the World The Most Violent Funeral The Most Expensive Funeral The Largest Coffin The Longest Funeral Procession The Most Visited Cemetery The Most Expensive Hearse The Classiest Pet Burial The Most Important Funeral The Oldest Cemetery The Least Dignified Funeral

Chapter 4: The Future of Funerals

Swimming with the Fishes When Social Death Meets Actual Death Coffins and Computers Diamonds Are Forever Environmental Expiration The Organic Afterlife Dead Doggy Duplication Go Out with a Bang Art Is Dead The Very Cold Hand of Death Renewable Energy—Cremation Style Woebegone Webcasts Fat Funerals Digital Remains Plastination Stuffing Man’s Best Friend Can You Hear Me Now? Precautions for the Completely Paranoid Ashes to Apogee

Chapter 5: Crazy One-Offs

Nightmare Naptime My Parents Went to a Funeral and All They Brought Me Was This Dumb Skull The Saddest Shakedowns Dining with the Dead Urns Are So Outdated Like Taking Candy from a Corpse Coffin Contests Gallows Humor Corpse Couture Love after Death The Cadaver Synod The Fine Art of Faking Your Own Death The Only Way Funerals Could Get Any Worse Crashing Your Own Funeral Drive-Thru Funeral Homes Modern-Day Mummies Terrible Getaway Vehicles Crazy Cremations Real-Life Weekend at Bernie’s Where There’s a Will … The Vagina Carver The Weird World of Obituaries Frozen Dead Guy Days Would You Like a Coffin with That? Nothing Is Certain but Sports and Funerals One Foot in the Cage

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