No Ordinary Deaths : A People's History of Mortality - Molly Conisbee Pages:368 pages A Time for Truth is

A Time for Truth is a unique testimony of devastation

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No Ordinary Deaths : A People's History of Mortality - Molly Conisbee Pages:368 pages A Time for Truth isA beautifully written and thought provoking journey' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains'There surely won't be a better history of the subject than Conisbee's' Literary Review'Richly researched an intimate chronology' TLSThe lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal