Forget manuels for cars and computers death is the big event you really need to be clued up for and there s just no excuse for slacking. Death - A User s Guide is a one-step stop shop about death and beyond. This book also presents the history of death the physiology of death death in literature and art suicide superstitions near death experiences the language of death the rituals of death secrets of the undertaker the afterlife reincarnation famous last words bizarre burials amusing epitaphs strange ways to die and enough curious facts and figures to bury a man.