Lonely Planet's guide to death, grief and rebirth : how global grieving customs can help us live (and die) well / by Anita Isalska [with Joe Bindloss].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isalska, Anita, author.

Bindloss, Joseph, author.

Contributor:

Lonely Planet Global Limited, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Death.

Death--Social aspects.

Grief--Social aspects.

Grief.

Reincarnation.

Travel.

reincarnation.

funerals.

travel.

Physical Description:

237 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Guide to death, grief and rebirth : how global grieving customs can help us live (and die) well

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Lonely Planet Global Limited, 2024.

Summary:

"How do cultures around the world grieve their loved ones? From Tibetan sky burials and Māori mourning customs to Swedish death cleaning, Irish wakes and Buddhism's bardos, this enthralling book reveals the different ways in which people approach life's one certainty: death. Through the four themes of celebrating, commemorating, mourning and offering, we illuminate more than 35 life-affirming traditions. Along the way, we'll highlight places and festivals that can be visited, such as Mexico's Day of the Dead and the catacombs of Paris. Local contributors provide personal perspective on many customs, revealing how they can help us all live (and die) well."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Celebrating: The Irish wake ; New Orleans' jazz funerals ; No expense spared in China ; Gai Jatra in Nepal ; Mexico's Día de Muertos ; Turning of the bones, Madagascar ; Ikwa ozu of the Igbo people, Nigeria ; Dead can dance : festivals and celebrations of death

Commemorating: Merry cemetery of Romania ; Memento mori photographs ; Realms of bone : remarkable catacombs ; South Korean burial beads ; Fantasy coffins of Ghana ; Reuniting with the dead in Sulawesi ; Papua New Guinea's mummies ; Pet cemeteries ; Alternative farewells ; Preserving heroes for eternity ; High-rise homes for the dead

Mourning: Death wailing ; Islamic funeral customs ; Lakota soul keepers ; Māori mourning ceremonies ; Ritual finger amputation ; Life, death and the Dreaming ; Jewish mourning around the world ; The people paid to weep ; Symbols of death and rebirth

Offering: Zoroastrian towers of silence ; Balinese cremation ; End-of-life doulas ; Swedish death cleaning ; Buddhism's sixt Bardo ; Green burials ; Varanasi's cremation ghats ; Jainism's gentle art of dying ; Hanging coffins of Sagada ; Tibetan sky burials ; Remembered in stone : the world's most impressive tombs.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781837580057

1837580057

OCLC:

1365615912