Handbook for the Recently Deceased

Handbook for the Recently Deceased
General Information
Films	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Background Information
Alias	The handbook
User(s)	Adam Maitland Barbara Maitland Lydia Deetz Otho Jeremy Frazier Astrid Deetz
Creator	Juno (possibly)
Purpose	Guide those who had just died
Location	Maitland Residence
Powers	Allows the living to see the dead if they read it
Status	Still standing

The Handbook for the Recently Deceased is an object in the 1988 feature film Beetlejuice. It is a guidebook for spirits new to the afterlife. A copy appeared at the Maitland Residence after they passed away.

Contents

The handbook has been described as reading like "stereo instructions."

Facts

• Live people ignore the strange and unusual.
• Functional parameters vary from manifestation to manifestation (put more simply outside of the book, all deaths are personal, and the limitations between ghosts are based on how a person lived and died).

Trivia

• It is possible people born with psychic powers are able to see the book as Lydia and her daughter were able to find and read the book before and after their encounters with ghosts.