Lonely Planet’s Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth is an illuminating book that reveals how cultures and communities around the world grieve their loved ones – with lessons we can all learn from to help us all live (and die) well.
Divided into four key chapters: Celebrating, Commemorating, Mourning, and Offering, readers will discover resting places, burials, rituals, and symbols that have been associated with death throughout time.
This is an insightful guide for anyone looking to gain a fresh perspective into the ways we process death as a society and as individuals. It includes over 35 incredible customs from cultures and communities across the planet with first-person accounts and essays from locals discussing their relationship and experiences with death. Vibrant illustrations and photography explain the customs and rituals in a gracious manner.
Special in-depth features examine elements of death in greater detail including: festivals and celebrations; remarkable catacombs; symbols of death and rebirth; the world’s most impressive tombs.
Themes and events featured within the book: Jazz funerals (New Orleans); Turning of the bones (Madagascar); Burial beads (South Korea); Fantasy coffins (Ghana); Lakota soul keepers (USA); Islamic funeral customs; death wailing; the people paid to weep; Swedish death cleaning; Green burials; and more.
Lonely Planet’s Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth is available now for £19.99
Watch the lead author Anita Isalska introduce the book: