Of the Dead (1979)

This fascinating, frightening and enlightening documentary masterfully explores the ways different cultures treat death and the Dead. Witness and autopsy in Mexico, mummification, embalming, cremation, cryogenics and more. Experience hysteria, funeral rituals and burials; hear sacred words spoken, chanted and sung by monks ,priests and villagers. Listen to those at death's door: a stabbing victim; a rebel about to be executed in Central America Not for the faint-hearted or squeamish, this enthralling view of the diverse cultures on their planet contains actual events shown in graphic detail.