Book of Life. Laws, Rites, Rituals, Customs, Ceremonies concerning Dying and Dead, Usages of Mourning, Prayers.

Any  inexperienced  person  to  whose  lot  has fallen  the  mournful  task  of  supervising  the  depositing  of the  remains  of  a  near  relative  in  their  final  resting  place, must  have  felt  the  want  of  a  book  containing  the  necessary instructions  and  directions  for  such  occasions. CONTENTS: LAWS. - Laws  concerning  the  Dying. - Laws  concerning  the  Bending  of  Garments,  etc.
- Laws  concerning  the  interval  between  death  and interment. - Laws  concerning  the   Washing  and  Shrouding. - Laws  concerning   Women  dying  in  Child-bed. - Laws  concerning  persons  killed  by  accident,  etc.;  likewise concerning  disinterment. - Laws  concerning  the  Shrouds  and  Coffin. - Laws  concerning  the  chamber  where  the  corpse  lies. - Laws  concerning  the  conveying  of  the  dead  to  the burying-ground,  etc.
- Laws  concerning  Mourning,  its  beginning,  its  observation  during  the  Shivah,  Sh'loshim  etc. ORDER   OF   PRAYERS.  - Prayer  for  persons  conscious  of  approaching  death.