# No Ordinary Deaths

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- Authors: [Molly Conisbee](https://www.bookquiver.com/molly-conisbee)
- Publisher: Wellcome Collection
- ISBN: 978-18-0081-588-9
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2026-04-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A beautifully written and thought provoking journey' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains'There surely won't be a better history of the subject than Conisbee's' Literary Review 'Richly researched ... an intimate chronology' TLSThe lost art of 'dying well' was common knowledge to our ancestors - who, living closer to death than we do, had an intimate and integrated relationship with the afterlife. For centuries, cycles of death, dying and disposal have shaped society, from the death-watchers of the Middle Age to the pomp of Victorian funeral wear. Ranging from the plague pit to the grave-robbery, from consecrated ground to the hangman's drop, No Ordinary Deaths is a groundbreaking work of social history which asks: how did our ancestors live, and die? How might the old ways help prepare us for our own ends?