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The Right Way of Death: Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling
| Author | : Eric Layer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2020-09-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781735610924 |
Funeral service is dying. Cremation rates are sky-high, new competitors pop up every day, and an entire generation of funeral home owners are considering closing shop. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening death care and everything mortuary owners need to know about how to save it.
Reimagining Death
| Author | : Lucinda Herring |
| Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2019-01-08 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1623172934 |
Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death and do so in creative and healing ways. Reimagining Death offers stories and guidance for home funeral vigils, advance after-death care directives, green burials, and conscious dying. When we bring art and beauty, meaningful ritual, and joy to ease our loss and sorrow, we are greening the gateway of death and returning home to ourselves, to the wisdom of our bodies, and to the earth.
American Funeral Vehicles
| Author | : Walter McCall |
| Publisher | : Enthusiast Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003-11-08 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781583881040 |
The most complete, in-depth book on hearses and funeral cars ever! Beginning with horse drawn, highly ornate hearses up to today's motorized vehicles, this book takes you through the complete history of 20th Century hearses. Follow the overall style development from the early carved-panel columned and draped designs, through the limousine-styled Funeral Coach and side-loaders, through the sleek designs that have led to today's hearses.Photos and History on Henney, Eureka, A.J. Miller, Superior, and history of other large and small hearse-builders like Barnette, Economy, Memphian, etc., and the growth and decline of many of these companies. Over 300 high quality photos combined with in-depth text present the most complete history and evolution of motorized hearses ever. A must have book for all automotive enthusiasts.Includes an index of all the important past and present hearse and conversion builders in North America.
The Undertaker's Wife
| Author | : Dee Oliver |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2015-03-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0310340861 |
On Dee Branch’s first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to leave “for just a minute”—and he came back to the car with a corpse. Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her wealth of experience to provide candid and often hysterically funny advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before. Her insights on the common ground of grief, survival, and the ever-present faithfulness of God (to all of us, regardless of our race, religious upbringing, or socio-economic background) will help readers prepare for one of life’s only certainties—and do it with wisdom, grace, and a healthy dose of joy.
The American Way of Death Revisited
| Author | : Jessica Mitford |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011-11-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0307809390 |
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
To Serve the Living
| Author | : Suzanne E. Smith |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-02-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780674036215 |
In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story.
Complying with the Funeral Rule
| Author | : United States. Federal Trade Commission |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Burial laws |
| ISBN | : |
Classic American Ambulances & Funeral Vehicles
| Author | : Tom McPherson |
| Publisher | : Enthusiast Books |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2007-05-15 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781583882061 |
Two books for the price of one! Covering the early and classic time period of ambulances and funeral vehicles, two out-of-print yet in demand Iconografix books have now been combined into one book and restored for your enjoyment. Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979 Photo Archive is a photographic history of the evolution and sudden demise of the passenger car-based emergency ambulance while Classic American Funeral Vehicles 1900-1980 Photo Archive shows hearses, flower cars and funeral service cars. Anyone involved in the funeral or ambulance industry will enjoy seeing these classic luxury cars, as will any car enthusiast, restorer, modeler, and historian.
