Well, three wasn't a charm … and after I recommend Bernd to one of my former BFF book club members. Bernd really isn't attempting to reconcile a concept of after life, after all, he is a biologist. Instead, chapter after chapter describes the scavengers of the animal world. I don't want to read anymore about dung or other kinds of beetles, maggots etc.
His impetus to write on this subject was a letter from a friend asking Bernd to bury him on his New England property without benefit neither a casket nor clergy. Bernd demurs but goes on at great length about the curious boy experiments that he continued to do into manhood watching bugs invade carcasses. Do not read this book shortly before or shortly after meals.
His premise on metamorphosis, particularly the larvae into a butterfly comes too close to reincarnation but falls flat as he does not dare to attribute this skill to higher life form. "... and unto dust (soil) thou shalt return."
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