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What to Expect When You're Dead

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What to Expect When You're Dead

An Ancient Tour of Death and the AfterlifeBy Robert GarlandNarrated by Zeb Soanes

What to Expect When You're Dead

Length8h 24m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes takes an entertaining and enlightening look at how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from them A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead 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. What to Expect When You're Dead 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? Filled with intriguing stories and frequent humor, What to Expect When You're Dead will be a morbidly delicious treat for every reader alive.

Audiobook details

GenrePhilosophy

Length8 hrs 24 mins

Narrated byZeb Soanes

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateApr 8, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credit, Dedication, Epigraph

8Chapter 6 - Things to Do When You're Dead

2Introduction

9Chapter 7 - How to Dispose of the Body

3Chapter 1 - How Humans Came to Believe in an Afterlife

10Chapter 8 - Where to Deposit the Remains

4Chapter 2 - How to Achieve a Good Death

11Chapter 9 - Living with the Dead

5Chapter 3 - Between Two Worlds

12Chapter 10 - What If...?

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6Chapter 4 - Postmortem Judgement

13End Credit

7Chapter 5 - Heaven and Hell

About the author

Robert Garland

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