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UNNATURAL NATURAL


Snyder Sachs, Jessica. Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death. Da Capo Press, 2002.


ALAS, POOR YORICK

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Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.





EROS AND THANATOS


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Sachs, Adam. “Stranger than Paradise.” The New York Times Style Magazine, May 10, 2013.





BUBBLATING


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Dickey, Colin. Afterlives of the Saints. Unbridled Books, 2012.

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Kanda, Fusae. “Behind the Sensationalism: Images of a Decaying Corpse in Japanese Buddhist Art.” Art Bulletin 87, no. 1 (2005).

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.





GHUSL


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Bynum, Caroline Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. Zone Books, 1991.

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Quigley, Christine. The Corpse: A History. MacFarland, 2005.





THE REDWOODS


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DETH SKOOL


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Lynch, Thomas. The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.





THE ART OF DYING


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