The best books to change your thinking about death and dying

Book cover of About to Die: How News Images Move the Public Book cover of To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Book cover of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Book cover of Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness Book cover of Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

Want books like Being with the Dead?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 61 books like Being with the Dead.

Book cover of To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Book cover of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Book cover of Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present Book cover of About to Die: How News Images Move the Public Book cover of Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death Book cover of The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

Browse books like Being with the Dead

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in funerals, burial, and death?

Funerals 36 books
Burial 11 books
Death 417 books