The Embalming Room

The Embalming Room
Author: D.F. McPhee
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469170779

Things are not what they seem at Pennsington Funeral Home. When Helen Randall takes a secretarial job there, she is forewarned by a previous employee and told to quit. Her boss Barlow Pennsingtons strange obsession with the dead only further adds fuel to the fire. Far from being crestfallen, Helens curiosity is piqued and she starts snooping around the business. She stumbles upon a room that is mysteriously locked and when she finally opens it, she discovers secrets too hideous to comprehend. As she continues to unravel the appalling horrors of her discovery, Helen finds herself embroiled in a gruesome gamble where losing could cost her very life.

Anatomy and Embalming

Anatomy and Embalming
Author: Albert John Nunnamaker
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Anatomy and Embalming is a scientific tome by Charles Otto Dhonau. In this in-depth treatise on the science and art of embalming, the author presents the successful methodologies and knowledge of anatomy required for the subject.

Final Rights

Final Rights
Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0942679350

Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .

Nine Years Under

Nine Years Under
Author: Sheri Booker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1592407625

A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, Sheri found comfort in the funeral home and soon had the run of the place. With AIDS and gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black men, Wylie was never short on business. As families came together to bury one of their own, Booker was privy to their most intimate moments of grief and despair. But along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of dark humor: brawls between mistresses and widows, and car crashes at McDonald’s with dead bodies in tow. While she never got over her terror of the embalming room, Booker learned to expect the unexpected and to never, ever cry. Nine Years Under offers readers an unbelievable glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives.

Embalming Is Not a Sport

Embalming Is Not a Sport
Author: Arlin D. Menager
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2001-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759622035

Cavitt Izon Breeze was born with a relatively rare eye disorder called micropthalmia, which means he has been totally blind since birth. At the very beginning of his life family member started to lay the framework for him to one day become totally independent. This independence requires preparing his mind, body, and spirit to respond to each life's event with proper thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to ensure proper development of his physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and moralistic well-being. These areas of development are the main subject of this book. Each issue, experience, accomplishment, and failure shared by the blind people in this book are addressed to Cavitt, who is five years old, but are applicable to any child who is blind and entering the pathway to independence. The stories you will read in this book are about real people with one thing in common, blindness. Some, like little Cavitt they were blind from birth. Others became blind shortly after birth but do not remember ever seeing. They all have a message, "I did it my way, and here is my way." These unique people, who are blind, expressed their mental and emotional selves in a manner that illustrated the physical, psychological, intellectual, social, and moralistic situations in their lives. They showed a willingness to live a life to its fullest despite their handicap.

The Haunted Houses of Pussy Willow Manor

The Haunted Houses of Pussy Willow Manor
Author: Kevin Guest
Publisher: Kevin Michael Guest
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463786646

Dr. Berry, chair of the psychology department of Dallas's most prestigious university, received a rejection letter on his life's work. The next day, October 31, 2008, he got a second chance, an article confirming the existence of ghosts at the infamous Pussy Willow Manor. The current owner has been running the property as a Halloween attraction for years, though many belive it doubles as a whore house.However, it's not the attraction that is of interest to Anderson, but rather its true history. Upon visiting the manor, he struck a deal with the owner to rent the entire property for five days, under the condition that all Halloween props are removed.Unfortunately for Dr. Berry, he got his way...

Those Who Long

Those Who Long
Author: W. G. TUTTLE
Publisher: W. G. Tuttle
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2020-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1949637174

Thad E. Hadet spends a lot of time at the Will B. Still Funeral Home in town. He does not work there. Those who do are no relation to him. Nor is Thad terminally ill. So why does Thad visit the funeral home every day? Thad is making funeral arrangements-his own.