Heart Burial
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780548007198
Subjects: Customs & Traditions; Death & Dying; Social Science / Death & Dying; Social Science : Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: THE object of these notes is to show the origin and development of the practice of the separation of the body at death into two or more parts, and to suggest the circumstances which lead to the special treatment of the heart, for which, hitherto, reasons apparently not quite adequate have been advanced.