As the lion visits each corpse it throws dirt and chaff over its head, a traditional sign of mourning in Iran.
Tells about a childhood incident in which the writer visits the corpse of another child at a funeral, and his thoughts on visiting his elderly uncle, near death, in Mexico City.
Doughty talked about a recent trip that she had taken to Japan, where she'd visited a corpse hotel, which allows families with apartments too tiny for a home funeral to participate in the ritual preparation of a body.
Xie, the son of a first-generation Communist who himself suffered in the Cultural Revolution, only visited the corpse once again – in the 1980s – and said he was "too busy" to pay any respects this week.
Between trips to the morgue to identify corpses, she visits a pampas village named Open Door, after the psychiatric hospital that was founded there in 1898 as an "agricultural work colony".
The early descriptions of the protagonist's visits to the valley of corpses is written in the most haunting prose.
Three days into my visit I had to step over a corpse to get inside a club.
Brothels are visited for inspiration; the corpse of a drowned woman fires a feverish creative urge.
In the same spirit, the British Museum is encouraging families to visit its Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition, which features corpses, tombs and macabre myths.
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, after a visit to Argentina where he called Mr Bush "a political corpse" at a rally, went on a seemingly improvised counter-tour of four countries.
