memento mori

art historian and self professed death enthusiast paul  koudounaris of los Angeles California spent a decade visiting 250 memorial sites across 30 different  countries is search of  human remains concealed in search of  human  remains concealed in historical sites documenting  how different cultures remember the dead his book memento mori included the 19th century remains  preserved in a capuchin monastery in burgio sicily called form ripley believe it or not