Death rituals, funerals, and the raw mechanics of dying and decay fill this 1979 film from Belgian directors Jean-Pol Ferbus, Dominique Garny, and Thierry Zeno. Shot across multiple countries without narration or interviews to explain what is on screen, the camera simply records: embalming, autopsies, animal slaughter, mourning ceremonies, and burial customs from cultures the filmmakers never name or contextualize. The effect is closer to an unfiltered visual record than a conventional documentary argument, and the film became notorious on the underground and mondo-film circuit for how far it lets its camera go into scenes most films cut away from. There is no host guiding the viewer through a thesis about mortality; instead the footage accumulates, one ritual or procedure after another, leaving the viewer to draw whatever conclusions they can about how different societies handle the dead. It plays less like education than like evidence, presented and left alone.