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'In My Time of Dying' is a detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.

Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Akan (African people) --- Akans (African people) --- Twi Fante (African people) --- Ethnology --- Fanti (African people) --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- Social life and customs. --- Philosophy --- Ghana --- Adinkra. --- African funerals. --- African history. --- Akan. --- Asante. --- Birifu. --- Eric Seeman. --- Ga. --- Gandah. --- Ghanaian history. --- Gold Coast. --- Katherine Verdery. --- Kumasi. --- The Reaper's Garden. --- Thomas Laqueur. --- Vincent Brown. --- angry ghosts. --- burial. --- burials. --- cemeteries. --- curation of human crania. --- death duties. --- dishonorable dead. --- funerals. --- funerary culture. --- funerary. --- gold. --- grave good. --- graveyard. --- grief. --- house burial. --- human sacrifice. --- immolation. --- inheritance. --- king of Gyaman. --- mortuary exchange. --- mortuary. --- mourning. --- poison. --- poisonings. --- sculptures of the dead. --- servitude and death. --- testaments. --- wills.