From the earliest childhood of Кейтлин Даути, head of funeral bureau in Los Angeles, the theme of death interested. And in 22 she went to work in a crematorium. Her first book "When smoke covers eyes" became the best seller of Amazon instantly. This was the provocative recital of young elegant woman of the strange, but favourite work.In a new book an author in a peculiar to her ironical manner tells about the trips on the world with an aim studies of traditions of farewell and burial the dead at different people.you know as an annual holiday of Диас passes de Лос of Муэртос, or parade of Day dead in Mexico. What a "celestial burial" is in Tibet. Why in Indonesian Торадже of body of the dead kept at home from a few months to a few years and. why in the west did organization of funerals grow into the hidden and very profitable business?