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In 1347, the Italian city-state Siena was still famous for its wealth and beauty. However, in just a few months, the city's population dropped by three-quarters. The entire city was once littered with corpses and looked like a ghost town. The regime also came to an end in less than ten years. The direct cause of this disaster was the Black Death that swept across Eurasia, but war, famine, the way society functioned, and the limited level of medical knowledge at the time also contributed to this death catastrophe. "The History of Human Death" begins with this period of history in Siena, reviewing and examining the changes in the main causes of human death from multiple angles and levels, as well as related social, medical and scientific topics. Combining rich historical materials and simple and easy-to-understand life science and medical principles, the author Andrew Doig presents readers with a time span of thousands of years and a grand picture of social groups. There are in-depth and thorough analyzes in "The History of Human Death". Death is an innate and unavoidable eternal problem for human beings. In the course of the evolution of human society, the main causes of human death-even the definition of death-have never stopped evolving, and the means of delaying and resisting death have become increasingly abundant. As "The History of Human Death" shows, it is a history of the evolution of human society, a history of changes in the main causes of human death, and a history of progress in resisting death.