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A lively story of death, What to Expect When You鈥檙e Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions鈥擬esopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship on ancient archaeology, art, literature, and funerary inscriptions, Robert Garland invites readers to put themselves in the sandals of ancient peoples and to imagine their mental state moment by moment as they sought鈥攊n ways that turn out to be remarkably similar to ours鈥攖o assist the dead on their journey to the next world and to understand life鈥檚 greatest mystery.

What to Expect When You鈥檙e Dead chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What鈥檚 the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement鈥攁nd where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife鈥攁nd can they eat, drink, and have sex? And what can the living do to stay on good terms with the nonliving?

Filled with intriguing stories and frequent humor, What to Expect When You鈥檙e Dead will be a morbidly delicious treat for every reader alive.