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A vibrant and engaging social history of death and dying, and how our ends shape our lives and our communities “A beautifully written and thought-provoking journey” - Professor Sue Black, author of “All That Remains”_ “Surely there will be no better history of the subject than Conisbee’s book” - _Journal of Literature_ “Meticulously researched...a detailed chronology” -\- The Times Literary Supplement_ “Death was an art” The Generous](https://profilebooks.com/work/no-ordinary-deaths/)” The lost is known to our ancestors, who lived closer to death than we do, and had a close and integral relationship with the afterlife. Over the centuries, cycles of death, dying and burial have shaped society, from medieval death watchers to the opulence of Victorian funeral dress. From the pits of the plague to the exhumation of graves, from the Holy Land to the gallows, the book _An Extraordinary Death_ is a pioneering work in social history that asks the following question: How did our ancestors live, and how did they die? How can ancient ways help us prepare for our fate?