Kathy Benjamin: Funerals to Die for: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever

Funerals to Die for: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever


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For $12,500, you can get your remains launched into deep space. Or you might prefer a Tibetan `sky burial` where the body is left in the open for vultures to eat as monks and the mourning family watch. It's considered a bad omen if the vultures will not eat, or if even a small portion of the body is left after the birds fly away. Just be glad that you're not the undertakers for the Tongan royal family, who aren't allowed to use their hands for 100 days after preparing a king's body. Though that's better than ancient times, when they'd be strangled or have their hands cut off after the king was buried. Or maybe your deepest fear is being buried alive. In that case, you should invest in one of the popular 1800's safety coffins, which came with bells and breathing tubes. Death may still be the great unknown, but in this book you'll learn all about how different cultures, different times, and different people dealt with the idea of the great hereafter. From lovely to bizarre, grotesque to funny, this book will take you on a whirlwind tour of funeral customs and trivia.

The now legendary cover designs for the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) and the New Order single "Blue Monday" (1983) brought the Manchester graphic designer Peter Saville immediate international renown, with their somber yet lush Modernist edge. Saville was the cofounder of Factory Records, and was single-handedly responsible for its unique house style, so widely imitated, and so entirely Saville's own. Outside of the Factory stable he has produced covers for, among others, Patti Smith, Roxy Music, Wham!, Suede and Pulp, Funerals to Die for: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever free ebook and has also collaborated on many architectural, fashion and interior design ventures, including the famous Manchester nightclub the Hacienda, and collaborations with Nick Knight, David Chippenfield and Stella McCartney. His sensibility combines unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to facture imagery that epitomizes and defines a cultural moment. Based on his solo exhibition at the Migros Museum in Zurich, which also traveled to the ICA London, this book surveys Saville's extensive archives for the first time. It was conceived and designed in close collaboration with Saville; as such, it is the first publication to be designed by the artist.


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Author: Kathy Benjamin
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2013
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Publication Country: Holbrook, MA, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781440557071
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