num_pages: 260
description: Filled with bizarre anecdotes and illustrated with ghoulish images, this most unusual bedside companion records the lengths to which people throughout history have gone to cope with fears of being buried alive, of being defiled after death, of disintegrating in tombs, of being forgotten, and of coming to ignominious ends. **Lightning Print On Demand Title
language: English
title: The Bedside Book of Death
titlecomplete: The Bedside Book of Death
genres: Anthropology, Reference, Death, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.