num_pages: 179
description: Collected essays by a noted pathologist that lead the reader into an animated world of cadavers, coroners, graveyards, and death rituals. With keen insight and wicked wit, the author explores the culture of death from the perspective of one who routinely confronts mortality head-on.
language: English
title: The Day of the Dead: And Other Mortal Reflections
titlecomplete: The Day of the Dead: And Other Mortal Reflections (HARVEST/H B J BOOK)
genres: Essays, Science, Nonfiction, Death
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Harvest Books