Death Around The World - Margaret Ronan Eve Ronan

Strange Rites & Weird Customs

Death is here and death is there,

Death is busy everywhere,

All around, within, beneath,

Above is death - and we are death.

-Shelley, Death (1820)

The poet was right. Death is omnipresent. It is the end of the journey we all begin when we are born, a journey we all must take. It is a passage from the life we know into a great, unsolved mystery. We may not want to talk or even think about death, but most of us are very curious about it: What is death? Where do we go when we die? When is a person really dead?

A fascinating account of some of the ways people throughout history have tried to answer these questions, and how their attempts have led to many strange, even bizarre customs, traditions, superstitions.

A rare Scholastic book from the 1978. Some creases on the back cover.

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