Summary
"When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the li... Full description
- [pt.] 1. Small to large. Beetles that bury mice ; Sendoff for a deer ; The ultimate recycler : remaking the world
- [pt.] 2. North to south. Northern winter : for the birds ; The vulture crowd
- [pt.] 3. Plant undertakers. Trees of life ; Dung eaters
- [pt.] 4. Watery deaths. Salmon death-into-life ; Other worlds
- [pt.] 5. Changes. Metamorphosis into a new life and lives ; Beliefs, burials and life everlasting.