Alors, as promised, the first field guide companion to the newly released book, How to Bury an Anarchist, is here.
Understanding Deathcare is Book One of 86(!) in the Parallel Death Library, part of the new Anarchiste Death Project, created by moi with High Noon Hills Natural Burial Grounds & Conservation Cemeteries, et published by our beloved Bacchus Editions.
How to Bury an Anarchist asked what it means to reclaim authority over our own deaths, through philosophy, history, politics, memoir (blush!) et lived practice. Understanding Deathcare takes all of that into your hands, enfin: a practical explicitly anarchiste field guide to resisting et subverting the systems that assume authority over our deaths, et taking that authority for ourselves.
It is packed with the practical information for every aspect of deathcare: planning your own death, what happens when somebody dies, caring for et preparing a body, transport et disposition, vigils, funerals, burial, documents, institutions, legal boundaries, refusal, et all those places where you can simply do things differently. Keep it nearby for when somebody dies, or use it now to plan your own death. C’est à vous. Ne cédez rien. (Oui, I can help you)
CLICK HERE AT ARROW TO SEE ALL 86 TITLES IN THE PARALLEL DEATH LIBRARY
PARALLEL BURIAL & DISPOSITION
Parallel Burial in Western Europe
Parallel Burial in Eastern Europe
Parallel Burial in Scandinavia & the Nordic Countries
Parallel Burial in East Asia
Parallel Burial in Southeast Asia
Parallel Burial in South Asia
Parallel Burial in the Middle East & North Africa
Parallel Burial in Sub-Saharan Africa
Parallel Burial in Latin America & the Caribbean
Parallel Burial in Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
“Natural” Burial in Canada
Green Burial in the United States
Woodland & Forest Burials: How To
Death & Burial Autonomy in France
The Village Dead: Burial in Rural France
Private-Land Burial
Burial in a Shroud
Digging & Closing a Grave
Unmarked Burial
Burial at Sea
Water Cremation
Human Composting
Choosing Your End-of-Life & Disposition
CARING FOR & MOVING THE DEAD
Home Vigils: How To
Washing & Dressing Our Dead
Cooling a Body at Home
The First Twenty-Four Hours
How to Lift & Carry a Body
Bringing a Body Home
Caring for a Body Without Embalming
Refusing Embalming
Transporting a Dead Body
Crossing Borders with Bodies
Deathcare Paperwork
When Someone Dies at Home
When Someone Dies Somewhere Else
CHOSEN FAMILY, IDENTITY & OUTSIDER PROTECTION
Chosen Family Gets a Funeral Too
Who Gets Your Body When Your Family Is the Problem?
Protecting Chosen Family After Death
Protecting a Trans Person After Death
Protecting Your Name After Death
When Your Legal Name Is Not Your Name
Pronouns After Death
Dressing the Dead as Themselves
Keeping a Dead Person Out of the Church
Refusing an Unwanted Religious Funeral
Estranged Family & the Dead
Keeping Hostile Family Away
Privacy After Death
Protecting an Outsider Identity After Death
Living Under Another Name, Dying Under Your Own
Who May See the Body?
Who May Photograph the Body?
The Right to No Memorial
The Right to Disappear
Protecting Disappearance
How to Leave No Grave Marker
Chosen Names, Legal Names & the Dead
DISAPPEARANCE, PRIVACY & THE EDGE
How to Have No Funeral
Keeping a Death Private
Anonymous & Unmarked Burial
Making an Unmarked Grave
Disappearing from the Funeral
No Obituary
No Memorial
Keeping Your Death Off Social Media
Controlling Photographs of Your Body
Who Gets Told That You Died?
Planning a Private Burial
Planning for Disappearance
Clandestine Burial: Law, Risk & Autonomy
Burial Outside the Funeral Industry
Caring for the Dead Outside Professional Custody
MAKE IT WITH US
How to Make a Burial Shroud
How to Shroud a Body
How to Sew Shroud Ties & Carrying Straps
How to Build a Simple Coffin
How to Build a Coffin Without Metal
How to Build a Burial Bier
How to Carry a Shrouded Body
How to Lower a Body by Hand
How to Close a Grave by Hand
How to Wash & Dress a Body
How to Cool a Body at Home
Making a Natural Grave Marker
Preparing a Body-Care Kit Without the Funeral Industry
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THE ANARCHISTE DEATH PROJECT
The Anarchiste Death Project is the deathcare portal I built with High Noon Hills for the release of How to Bury an Anarchist, all of it housed et hosted by my beloved Bacchus Editions. This is where the ideas in the book become things you can actually do, documents you can use, decisions you can make, et knowledge you can keep close, au cas où.
At its center is the Parallel Death Library: 86 individual field guides on caring for et transporting bodies, washing et shrouding, vigils, funerals et memorials, digging et closing graves, natural et home burial, woodland et forest burial, private-land burial, sea burial et other dispositions; chosen family et outsider deaths, queer et trans deathcare, custody of the dead, hospitals, coroners, funeral homes et funeral law; clandestine burial, disappearance, anonymity, unmarked graves, institutional resistance, refusal, et planning your own death.
There are also deathcare resources et do-it-yourself end-of-life forms to download, print, fill in, alter, tuck into your papers, et give to whoever may need them one day.
Et, voilà, the entire 86-book Parallel Death Library collection can be found inside the Anarchist Death Project as scaled-back (sans art) black-et-white PDFs. The physical Bacchus editions you see here are their more extravagant little mates: full-color, high-quality, pro printed by BE art magazines…
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ET, HOW DO YOU GET THIS FIRST ONE?
Every order containing How to Bury an Anarchist gets one printed copy of Understanding Deathcare free. No code, rien, do not add it to your cart. If How to Bury an Anarchist is anywhere in your order, I will tuck Book One into your parcel. Already have the book ? Or did not ? T’inquiète ! Understanding Deathcare is now available separately in the Bacchus Editions bookshop.
XOXO,
Fíona
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Created by: Fíona Vivienne
In collaboration with: High Noon Hills Natural Burial Grounds & Conservation Cemeteries
Published by: Bacchus Editions
Series: Parallel Death Library
Volume: 1 of 86
Format: 68-page, full-color, professionally printed art magazine / field guide
Paper: Mohawk Via Satin Text, 100 lb. Text (148 GSM), with i-Tone
Binding: Saddle stitched
Size: 5.5 × 8.5 inches
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