El gran libro de la muerte

Why in the West do we live with our backs to death? What vision did the ancient Greek philosophers have about "passing to the other shore"? How did they conceive "the new existence" in Ancient Egypt? What have been the names that the "angels of death" have adopted throughout history? Who are the Moiras? Why do we celebrate the cult of the dead in the month of November? How did the concept of judging the dead arise? What does the shaman know about transcendence? What forms do the guides of death take? What do cinema, literature and popular culture contribute to the interpretation of the end of life? How has it been represented in art? What happens just before you die? What explanations has science offered for the great transit? Why is sleep compared to death? How to help the dying to transcend? Begoña Beneito, in this rigorous and exhaustive investigation, answers these and many other questions and reveals, without taboos, some of the great unknowns that still worry human beings today, such as the figure of the psychopomp, an entity that guards the dying in its transit to the most there: a universal concept that appears in countless cultures since the dawn of time, and to which he pays special attention in this book. The magnum opus about the greatest mystery in human history: the end of life. A deep, cross-sectional and exciting study of the culture of death from the perspective of philosophy, comparative religion, history, metaphysics, art, spiritualism or literature. An impressive and revealing reading that, through knowledge, will lead us to a transcendent reflection on life and will help us lose the fear of our most atavistic fear: death.