Introduction ix
I Small to Large
Beetles That Bury Mice
3(18)
Sendoff for a Deer
21(16)
The Ultimate Recycler: Remaking the World
37(24)
II North to South
Northern Winter: For the Birds
61(16)
The Vulture Crowd
77(24)
III Plant Undertakers
Trees of Life
101(30)
Dung Eaters
131(20)
IV Watery Deaths
Salmon Death-into-Life
151(6)
Other Worlds
157(18)
V Changes
Metamorphosis into a New Life and Lives
175(10)
Beliefs, Burials, and Life Everlasting
185(14)
Acknowledgments 199(2)
Further Reading 201(18)
Index 219