Death's Summer Coat by Brandy Schillace

Death's Summer Coat by Brandy Schillace

Death is something we all confront--it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.

We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?

Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together--conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present--and about ourselves.

Brandy Schillace writes about the history of science and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is the managing editor of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry as well as research associate and guest curator for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History in Ohio. She teaches at Case Western University as well as writing for the Huffington Post and managing the Fiction Reboot and Daily Dose blogs.

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ISBN 13	9781681773247
ISBN 10	1681773244
Title	Death's Summer Coat
Author	Brandy Schillace
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pegasus Books
Year published	2017-02-14
Number of pages	336
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