Thomas Laqueur's (French: Le Travail des Morts ) is not a fictional story, but a sweeping, detailed cultural history that explores why the living have always felt a deep, undeniable obligation to care for the bodies of the deceased.
The "story" Laqueur tells is the history of the human imagination and its refusal to treat a corpse as mere biological waste. Key themes and narratives within the book include: Download Thomas Laqueur travail des morts epub