Caitlin Doughty, AKA Ask a Mortician, is back with her 2nd book. This time she looks at death and funeral rituals across the world. As with her first book, she writes with sensitivity and her usual humour. Doughty has a talent of writing about death in a way that makes it a lot less scary. The illustrations by Landis Blair are stunning and really make the book more engaging.

My only suggestion for an improvement would have been to include a map, marking the places mentioned in this book.

Recommended for the morbidly curious and those who want to face their fear of death. A firm 5 stars.