In Mexican tradition there is the idea of a person dying three deaths: the first when you physically die, the second when your body decays and returns to nature, and the final when there is no one around who remembers you. Keeping a person alive in memory is a core part of numerous cultures, whether through passing a name down family lines, by burying the departed in the garden, as some do in Samoa, or by storytelling.

Japan's Infamous Unit 731, by Hal Gold.
256 pages