The Anarchist Death Project: Understanding Deathcare Art Magazine Field Guide #1 is Here!
As promised, the first companion to How to Bury an Anarchist is here.
Understanding Deathcare is Book One of 86(!) in our Parallel Death Library, part of The Anarchist Death Project, created by Fíona Simone Vivienne in collaboration with High Noon Hills Natural Burial Grounds & Conservation Cemeteries, and published by us, Bacchus Editions.
Understanding Deathcare is a practical anarchist field guide for the death nobody warned you might have to fight for. It tells you what hospitals, coroners, funeral homes and cemeteries can actually require, what they are counting on you not questioning, where their authority ends, and what happens when you simply refuse the rest.
Who pronounces, who certifies, who controls disposition, where policy masquerades as law, and how to take the practical work back into your own hands: washing, shrouding, carrying, vigil, burial. Keep it nearby for when somebody dies, or use it now to start thinking about or planning your own death.
Question by question, boundary by boundary, find out where the law ends, what becomes possible around and beyond it, and how much you never had to surrender in the first place.
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HOW TO GET BOOK ONE
Every order containing How to Bury an Anarchistautomatically receives a complimentary printed copy of Understanding Deathcare. No code, and no need to add it separately. If How to Bury an Anarchist is anywhere in your order, Book One goes into the package with it.
If you already have How to Bury an Anarchist, want another copy for someone who should keep one close at hand, or simply want Understanding Deathcare on its own, the full-color art magazine edition is now available separately in the Bacchus bookshop.
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WHAT IS THE ANARCHIST DEATH PROJECT?
The Anarchist Death Project is the practical companion to the book we just released: How to Bury an Anarchist: At its center is the Parallel Death Library: 86 individual field guides devoted to the practical territories of death and dying, from caring for and transporting a body to home vigils, shrouding, natural and home burial, queer and trans deathcare, chosen family, funeral law, institutional ‘authority’ and refusal, documentation, clandestine practices, and planning for your own death.
Alongside the Library are practical deathcare resources and do-it-yourself end-of-life forms, made to be downloaded, printed, filled in, altered, kept with your papers, and given to the people who may one day need them.
The purchase of the 400-page How to Bury an Anarchist includes bookmark access to the complete Anarchist Death Project. All 86 Parallel Death Library books will eventually be in the project portal in scaled-back black-and-white PDF editions, made to be read, downloaded, printed, kept close, and shared.
[SEE ALL 86 TITLES IN THE PARALLEL DEATH LIBRARY HERE]
CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL 86 TITLES IN ANARCHIST DEATH PROJECT'S 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 PHYSICAL PARALLEL DEATH LIBRARY
The physical Bacchus Editions deathcare magazines, created by our Fíona with High Noon Hills, are full-color, high-quality, professionally printed art magazines, giving the Parallel Death Library a physical life alongside its black-and-white PDF editions.
Understanding Deathcare is the first.
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
Ships: When How to Bury an Anarchist begins mailing, approximately September 1.
Grab the first Anarchist Death Project Field Guide in the bookshop!