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Tennyson, Lord Alfred. In Memoriam: An Authoritative Text. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.





PUPPY SURPRISE


Ball, Katharine. “Death Benefits.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 15, 1993.

Gorer, Geoffrey. “The Pornography of Death.” Encounter 5, no. 4 (1955): 49–52.

Iserson, Kenneth V. Death to Dust? What Happens to Dead Bodies. Galen Press, 1994.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “Annabel Lee.” In The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Random House, 2012.

Solnit, Rebecca. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. New York: Penguin, 2010.

Suzuki, Hikaru. The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.





THE THUD


Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Doughty, Caitlin. “Children & Death.” Fortnight (2011), fortnightjournal.com/caitlin-doughty/262-children-death.html.

Laderman, Gary. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799–1883. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

May, Trevor. The Victorian Undertaker. Oxford, UK: Shire Publications Ltd, 1996.





TOOTHPICKS IN JELL-O


Ariès, Philippe. The Hour of Our Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Connolly, Ceci. “A Grisly but Essential Issue.” The Washington Post, June 9, 2006.

Dante. The Inferno. Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.

Orent, Wendy. Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Stackhouse, John. “India’s Turtles Clean Up the Ganges.” Seattle Times, October 1, 1992.





PUSH THE BUTTON


Bar-Yosef, Ofer. “The Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant.” In Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia. New York: Plenum Press, 1998.

Chrisafis, Angelique. “French Judge Closes Body Worlds–style Exhibition of Corpses.” The Guardian, April 21, 2009.

Cioran, Emil. A Short History of Decay. Arcade Publishing, 1975.

Grainger, Hilary J. Death Redesigned: British Crematoria History, Architecture and Landscape. Spire Books, 2005.

Newberg, Andrew, and Eugene D’Aquili. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. New York: Random House, 2008.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Prothero, Stephen R. Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Schwartz, Vanessa R. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-siècle Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.





PINK COCKTAIL


Aoki, Shinmon. Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician. Buddhist Education Center, 2004.

Ash, Niema. Flight of the Wind Horse: A Journal into Tibet. London: Rider, 1992.

Beane Freeman, Laura, et al. “Mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies among workers in formaldehyde industries: The National Cancer Institute Cohort.” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 101, no. 10(2009): 751–61.

Conklin, Beth A. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. University of Texas Press, 2001.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Gilpin Faust, Drew. The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Random House, 2009.

Habenstein, Robert W., and William M. Lamers. The History of American Funeral Directing. National Funeral Directors Association of the United States, 2007.

Laderman, Gary. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799–1883. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

O’Neill, John. Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001.

Taylor, John. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.





DEMON BABIES


Baudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil [Les fleurs du mal]. Translated by Christopher Thompson. iUniverse, 2000.

Cohan, Norman. Europe’s Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom. New York: Penguin, 1977.

Kramer, Heinrich, and James Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum. Translated by Montague Summers. Courier Dover Publications, 2012.

Paré, Ambroise. Des monstres et prodiges. Librairie Droz, 2003.

Roper, Lyndal. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Sanger, Carol. “‘The Birth of Death’: Stillborn Birth Certificates and the Problem for Law.” California Law Review 100, no. 269 (2012): 269–312.





DIRECT DISPOSAL


Gorer, Geoffrey. “The Pornography of Death.” Encounter 5, no. 4 (1955): 49–52.