LoginDeath: The Trip of a Lifetime
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In this surprising, occasionally sobering but often lighthearted travelogue designed to accompany a PBS series, Palmer, a broadcaster, playwright and filmmaker, examines death images across the world, interviewing people or just poking around and examining horror books, cartoons and other entertainments. He notes the tranquil names often given to cemeteries, like the ubiquitous Pleasant Hill or Taiwan's Happy Peace Garden. He reminds us that death is celebrated in holidays commemorating public figures and war heroes. In lively anecdotes, Palmer reports on the attitudes towards death declared by a Ghanaian witch doctor, a Buddhis
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Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Release date: 1 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 0062508024 | ISBN-13: 9780062508027
Release date: 1 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 0062508024 | ISBN-13: 9780062508027
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