Marzio Barbagli

Very good read, if a little on the chewy side. The first section of the book, focused on European understandings of death, was excellent.The later section of the book, an attempt to look at suicide in other parts of the book, was much weaker -- the scale got out of hand, and, especially when discussing India, the reliance on European observers was suspect.
With those caveats, very much worth reading.