Ahoy there mateys! By reading this, I have now read all of this author’s work. I loved both smoke gets in your eyes and will my cat eat my eyeballs?. I have to admit that personally for me the dead body is just a shell. Funerals and memorial services tend to not be useful to me in terms of the grieving process. I go to support other grieving loved ones but would skip them if I could (and do sometimes). I don’t want a funeral or a memorial or anything like that. I really want to have an open air burial or compost. Being dirt or vulture food sounds wonderful to me. That said, I do find other cultures death practices to be fascinating. I do wish to honor the dead person’s wishes in regards to how their own body is treated. What this book does is take a look at other cultures and how they deal with the dead. A lot of this wasn’t new to me given the articles and other books like stiff that I have read over the years. But it was an excellent book and one I think all people should read. Because death needs to be talked about and planned for. Because seriously it will happen to us all. Arrrr!