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No Rest in Peace // New Book Chronicles the Journeys of Celebrity Corpses

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950829
Author:SUSY SCHULTZ

There is life.

Then there is the afterlife.

Though we all await the same unavoidable fate, we wonder: Where do we go when we die?

Edwin Murphy has found the answer - at least in 36 cases.

That's all he had room for in his new book, After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses (Citadel Press, $9.95).

Murphy spent 10 years researching beyond-the-grave fates of such immortals as Frederic Chopin, Abraham Lincoln, Eva Peron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sitting Bull.

"It could have been a longer book with all the stories I found, but I wanted to save something for the ...

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