Life Everlasting : The Animal Way of Death (Hardcover)

from Catherine.Cox

An easy read about the flow of life into death at every level of the food chain through history. Very much a screed for population growth. Interesting, convincing. He's forced me to think about humans destruction of the chain of life and more prosaically why cremation is unnatural and destructive...

from DetailMuse

Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death opens with a letter Heinrich receives from an ill friend, requesting that he allow him a “green burial -- not any burial at all” on Heinrich's forest land in Maine. The friend, an ecologist, deplores both the waste of nutrients when remains are sealed in ...

from mitchellray

Bernd Heinrich has written a fascinating book about the cycle of life and death. The reader will likely come away from "Life Everlasting" with a new perspective on death. Rather than something to be feared, death is a conduit into other life. At the end of the book, Heinrich challenges us to reth...

from JBD1

Bernd Heinrich is one of those writers who almost never disappoints, and Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) is another excellent contribution. From burying beetles to ravens to brown bears and polychete worms, Heinrich takes us on a tour of nature's life-d...

from Sullywriter

A great nature book, well-written, thoughtful, informative and engaging focusing on the cycle of death to life in the natural world.