How To Bury An Anarchist Vol. II, In Production
How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II — Édition Révisée is now in production through Bacchus Editions, with release expected July 1, 2026…
How To Bury An Anarchist, Vol II.
Excited today, our proof (first copy) came out perfect. How to Bury an Anarchist Vol II is here. The first volume appeared in an extremely small private run and disappeared quickly into personal collections. This edition expands the project substantially, both in size and scope, and will receive a much larger print run. For those who have been waiting for this book, the new volume moves deeply into the practical, emotional, (a)legal, and philosophical terrain surrounding death outside institutional management.
The book is organized across nine major sections and explores subjects including:
(a)legal end-of-life arrangements
chosen death and personal authorship over one’s ending
funerary autonomy and body custody disputes
clandestine and unmarked burials
land burial and burials without inscription
next-of-kin conflicts surrounding death and refusal of inherited authority
entrusted death plans, letters, and fragments left before departure
practical and emotional realities of handling the dead outside institutional systems
aftercare beyond official archive and memorialization
the relationship between death, secrecy, sovereignty, and disappearance
Several sections focus directly on the physical and logistical realities surrounding death outside institutional care. The volume discusses carrying and tending the dead, unrecorded burial practices, timing, concealment, chosen witnesses, and the difficult situations that emerge when personal wishes conflict with legal structures or family expectations.
Other portions of the book gather letters, fragments, written intentions, partial instructions, and reflections surrounding chosen death, including the emotional terrain left behind afterward. These writings move away from therapeutic language and toward questions of authorship, affinity, privacy, et the refusal to surrender the final gesture entirely to institutional handling.
The revised edition also includes an extensive back section gathering end-of-life documents, death planning materials, and independently assembled forms and packets developed through years of direct funerary and burial experience. Rather than generic institutional paperwork, these materials were selected and organized specifically around questions of bodily autonomy, chosen witnesses, practical preparation, funeral authorization, burial wishes, and personal control over one’s final arrangements. Readers will also find curated resource links, references, and pathways for further exploration into home funerals, alternative burial practices, and autonomous death planning outside conventional funeral industry structures.
At its center, the book asks what it means for a singular life to remain singular at the threshold of death.
Modern society assumes continuity of ownership over the body. It assumes that death must pass through official channels, approved witnesses, managed grief, documented procedures, permanent inscription. This volume moves through those assumptions carefully, examining the many ways individuals and small circles have attempted to reclaim intimacy, secrecy, and direct participation in death from systems designed to absorb it.
There is also a substantial section devoted to the practical realities surrounding death outside institutional management. Questions of sovereignty appear here in material form: who carries the body, who has legal authority over it, what paperwork matters, how burial wishes are protected or ignored, how chosen witnesses navigate hospitals, coroners, funeral homes, transport, custody disputes, and the unstable terrain between personal intention and state procedure.
Several essays examine the tension between legality and legitimacy, especially in situations where personal bonds, chosen kinships, or entrusted wishes stand in conflict with institutional authority and or inherited family power. The book approaches these situations as real, lived terrain requiring clarity, preparation, emotional steadiness, and sometimes direct refusal.
Throughout the volume runs the conviction that death does not erase individuality. If anything, it reveals how deeply a life either belonged to itself or was surrendered piece by piece long before the end arrived.
This is one of the largest and most ambitious books Bacchus Editions has produced so far, and easily the most extensive work yet in the How to Bury an Anarchist series. More previews, excerpts, production photographs, and interior pages will appear as printing progresses.
How to Bury an Anarchist, Vol. II — Édition Révisée, Bacchus Editions, 2026, is available July, 2026.