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Author : David Rymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754105749
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Reluctant Funeral Director written by David Rymer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caleb Wilde
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062465260
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1416982760
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Funeral Director's Son written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : JESSICA MITFORD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Way of Death written by JESSICA MITFORD and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack E. Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Report of the Presiding Officer on Proposed Trade Regulation Rule Concerning Funeral Industry Practices written by Jack E. Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheri Booker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592407625
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Nine Years Under written by Sheri Booker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jill Elizabeth Nelson
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1590526872
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Runaway written by Jill Elizabeth Nelson and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it coincidence that Karen Webb disappears just one day before Indian artifacts are stolen? Security consultant Desiree Jacobs and her FBI agent boyfriend scramble to connect the dots - and save Karen's life.
Author : Amos Bunim
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873064736
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (647 download)
Download or read book A Fire in His Soul written by Amos Bunim and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karla FC Holloway
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332459
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Passed On written by Karla FC Holloway and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.
Author : Louisa Iarocci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351537466
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Visual Merchandising written by Louisa Iarocci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the crossroads of visual culture and consumerism, this essay collection examines visual merchandising as both a business and an art. It seeks to challenge that scholarly ambivalence that often celebrates the spectacle but denies the agenda of consumerism. The volume considers strategies in the imaging of selling from the mid nineteenth century to the present, in terms of the visual interaction that occurs between the commodity and the consumer and between body and space. Under the categories of Promotion, Product and Place, contributors to the volume examine the strategies in the presentation of retail goods and environments that range from print advertising to product design to store display and architecture. Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling is located directly at the nexus of business practice and cultural myth, where the spectator never loses sight of their status as buyer and the object of desire is always still a commodity.
Author : Philip Bachelor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351841688
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Sorrow and Solace written by Philip Bachelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event that we experience. In many societies, visiting the grave or memorial is a common behavioural response to bereavement. Memorial sites provide vital connections to our deceased loved ones with whom we wish to maintain ongoing social bonds, and cemeteries are crucial places of deep healing and growth. Millions of visits are made to cemeteries every day, but the extent of this activity and its value to those who mourn - the topics of this volume - have long remained largely unrecognised. Large urban memorial parks are hives of activity for recently bereaved persons, and are among the most visited places in Western communities. Some cemeteries, hosting millions of annual visits, are more popular than many major tourist attractions. Cemetery visitation is a high-participatory, value-laden, expressive activity, and a most significant observable behaviour of the recently bereaved. This work will be invaluable to those seeking a scholarly understanding of bereavement, mourning, and commemoration. Written principally for professionals with a tertiary educational interest in related fields, such as grief educators, nurses, palliative carers, and social workers, it is also an important resource for the further education of other carers and service providers, including psychologists, physicians, counsellors, clergy, funeral directors, cemetery administrators, and monumental masons. The book is also a significant contribution to the field of social anthropology.
Author : Mark Wakely
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522858952
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (589 download)
Download or read book Sweet Sorrow written by Mark Wakely and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book-at times heart-breaking, at times humorous-is dazzling for its profound honesty. Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents' deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality. With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsical investigation into this timeless subject. All you need to pack for the trip is a curiosity about life.
Author : Shannon Lee Dawdy
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826363466
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The New Death written by Shannon Lee Dawdy and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Charles
Publisher : Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1904433162
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Corpse written by Mary Charles and published by Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Oros
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312270969
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Call Reluctance: Lose Those Negative Feelings Keeping You From The Success You Deserve written by Bob Oros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Kastenbaum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003859852
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Death, Society, and Human Experience written by Robert Kastenbaum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage and understanding of topics associated with the end of life and death and dying. By approaching the subject from multiple angles, the authors explain the various ways that individual, cultural, and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses, Christopher M. Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for two decades, has updated this edition. In addition to infusing his close areas of focus, both in afterlife beliefs and experiences and how these might affect how people live their lives, he’s weaved in new coverage of current affairs, including: The impact of COVID-19 on experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and more Expanded legalization of physician-assisted dying in the United States and several countries Changes in bereavement rituals and traditions stemming from technology use and social media With additional content and classroom extensions available online, Death, Society, and Human Experience remains a thoughtful, exploratory, and impressively comprehensive overview for undergraduate and graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement.
Author : Robert Kastenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131734894X
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Death, Society and Human Experience (1-download) written by Robert Kastenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an understanding of the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. This book is intended to contribute to your understanding of your relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. Kastenbaum shows how individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market. This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: -Understand the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society -See how social forces and events affect the length of our lives, how we grieve, and how we die -Learn how dying people are perceived and treated in our society and what can be done to provide the best possible care -Master an understanding of continuing developments and challenges to hospice (palliative care). -Understand what is becoming of faith and doubt about an afterlife
