What Is Death? by Marie-Louise von Franz

A Jungian exploration of death as a psychological and symbolic process rather than simply biological extinction, examining dreams, myths, fairytales and alchemical imagery to show how unconscious material shapes our attitudes to dying and the afterlife; the book treats death as a transformative passage essential to individuation, discusses mourning, ghosts, and visions in light of archetypes, and offers practical insight into how encountering the psyche’s death-symbols can heal fear, deepen meaning, and integrate life and mortality.