1 Death and Dying - An Approach to Sources, Methods, and Theory Part I - The Basel Burial Practices between 1750 and 1850 2 Regulation and Administration 2.1 Mandates and Laws on Burial Practices 2.2 Basel Death and Burial Rites 2.3 Professions in the Burial Sector: "Gravedigger" and "Coalman" 3 The Burial Sites of the Münster Community 3.1 Development of Burial Sites 3.2 Appearance 3.3 Problems 4 Dangerous "Fumes" 4.1 The Time Before the 1814 Epidemic 4.2 The Nerve Fever Epidemic of 1814 4.3 The General Cemetery of the Münster Community at St. Elisabeth 4.4 Conclusion 5 Apparent Death: The Danger of Being Buried Alive 5.1 Apparent Death and Anatomy 5.2 Fear of Apparent Death and the Rescue of Accident Victims in Basel 6 On Special Burials of Various Dead 6.1 The Burial of Radical Pietists around 1750 6.2 Suicides at the Execution Site? 6.3 Accident Victims 6.4 Conclusion Part II - Death and Dying in Basel's Self-Writings of the 18th and 19th Centuries 7 Death and Dying in Self-Writings - An Introduction 8 Rituals Between Deathbed and Burial 8.1 Rituals at the Deathbed 8.2 The Burial of the Dead Body 8.3 On Writing Death Reports 9 Crises - Times of Greater Danger of Death 9.1 War as Everyday Life 9.2 The Nerve Fever Epidemic of 1814 10 Heaven, Hell, and Intermediate Worlds 10.1 Heaven and the Last Judgment 10.2 Hell, Intermediate Worlds, and Ghosts 11 Emotions and Remembrance 11.1 Of Grief and Other Emotions 11.2 On Remembrance Part III - One's Own Death in the Light of Self-Presentations 12 On Writing About One's Own Death 13 Between Trust in God and Discouragement 13.1 On the Biography of Esther Hauser-Faesch 13.2 Self-Presentations: Cheerful in the Face of One's Own Death 13.3 Writing and Intertextuality 14 Thoughts on Death of a Job 14.1 The Author and His Work 14.2 A Ubiquitous Theme: Death 14.3 The Development of a Job 15 Conclusion.