Design for death [by] Barbara Jones.

Main entry:

Jones, Barbara, 1912-1978.

Title & Author:

Design for death [by] Barbara Jones.

Edition:

[1st American ed.].

Publication:

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1967]

Description:

304 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The corpse -- The shroud -- The coffin -- The hearse and the undertaker's shop -- The floral tributes -- Printing and the word -- The procession -- The cemetery and the crematorium -- The tomb -- Relics and mementos -- Where death gets you -- Loving death.

Summary:

"Everyone dies. For thousands of years, uncountable millions of corpses have been given funerals, and the living have always been faced with the problems of valedictory ceremonials for the dead and what to do with the corpses. Most of them have been buried, burnt, preserved, put in the sea, or exposed to the air. Quicklime, acids, eating and shrinking are more rare, and on the whole the overtly scientific methods go with unnatural death, so that earth, air, fire, and water are the most common agents of disposal."--Page 9.

Subject:

Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death.
Funeral Rites.
Mortuary Practice.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies.
funerals.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 64862
Call No.: ID PLM GT3150.J6; ID:91-B211
Status: Available

Location: Library main 64863
Call No.: ID:91-B211
Status: Available

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