{"product_id":"9780691266176","title":"What to Expect When You're Dead","description":"Author: Robert Garland\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691266176\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 344\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death  and what we might learn from them\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lively story of death, \u003ci\u003eWhat to Expect When You're Dead\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions  Mesopotamian, 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  in ways that turn out to be remarkably similar to ours  to assist the dead on their journey to the next world and to understand life's greatest mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat to Expect When You're Dead\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What's the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement  and where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife  and can they eat, drink, and have sex? And what can the living do to stay on good terms with the nonliving?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with intriguing stories and frequent humour, \u003ci\u003eWhat to Expect When You're Dead\u003c\/i\u003e will be a morbidly delicious treat for every reader alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803902005406,"sku":"ADS-9780691266176","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691266176.jpg?v=1778206977","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691266176","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}