bA rollicking, globe-trotting death adventure...--The Brooklyn RailbpbbrbbrWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleanspp brBy the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge and tried to reason with herself does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth everybody dies.pp pWith Mexico's Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world - one for every day they didn't find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia - with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the li