A Reluctant Funeral Director
Author | : David Rymer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Undertakers and undertaking |
ISBN | : 9780754105749 |
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Author | : David Rymer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Undertakers and undertaking |
ISBN | : 9780754105749 |
Author | : Caleb Wilde |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0062465260 |
The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying
Author | : Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416982760 |
This family business is for life... In the small town of Clover, when you die, you are put to rest by Campbell and Sons Funeral Home. Unfortunately twelve-year-old Kip Campbell happens to be the only "son" in that title. And that's a problem for him since the funeral home business is the last thing he wants to inherit, even if he has a "gift" for it. See, it just so happens that Kip can talk to the dead. Well, they talk to him, really. They tell him what they need in order to move on to the great beyond. Kip wants to move too. Straight out of Clover. He's about to give notice -- he's done helping the dead -- when he's offered a surprising deal: Find out the secret that is holding back old Billy Blye, and Kip will receive his weight in gold. That would be enough to take him far away from Clover, and Campbell and Sons Funeral Home.
Author | : Jack E. Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amos Bunim |
Publisher | : Feldheim Publishers |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873064736 |
Author | : Shannon Lee Dawdy |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2022-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0826363466 |
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today’s rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic, historical, and media-based approaches, the contributors to this volume focus on new attitudes and practices around mortality and mourning—from the possibilities of digitally enhanced afterlives to industrialized “necro-waste,” the ethics of care, the meaning of secular rituals, and the political economy of death. Together, the chapters coalesce around the argument that there are two major currents running through the new death—reconfigurations of temporality and of intimacy. Pushing back against the folklorization endemic to anthropological studies of death practices and the whiteness of death studies as a field, the chapters strive to override divisions between the Global South and the Anglophone world, focusing instead on syncretization, globalization, and magic within the mundane.
Author | : Bob Oros |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1312270969 |
How to deal with that "feeling" that keeps you from reaching the success you deserve. How to deal with all the no's, the not interested, the negative comments and the worry that goes along with selling on commission. This book is not about the techniques and tactics for making the sale. This is a one-on-one, step-by-step conversation between you and I that shows you how to reach your highest expectations in your sales career. If you have ever had ANY difficulty dealing with the up's and down's in being in a career where 8 out of 10 people tell you to get lost, this book has your name on it..
Author | : Robert Webster |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1402250843 |
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on bhind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets The biggest rip-offs in the business The crazy things that happen to a body after death Lime, waz, and other ways to hide the truth The most important thing an undertaker does How to avoid the high-pressure funeral parlor What that's not a coffin the body is resting in