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Why Wait for Eulogies

Author : Lakshmi Sundar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Why Wait for Eulogies written by Lakshmi Sundar and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever read an obituary or been to a memorial service and been moved by the tributes paid to friends, family, and loved ones? These are some of the most beautiful, thoughtfully articulated messages of gratitude about a person's impact on the lives of their loved ones. Yet, the person whose rich life is being celebrated often doesn't get to hear, enjoy, and cherish their impact. These ruminations along with ongoing conversations with her dear friend Suzanne (who is battling Stage 4 cancer) propelled Lakshmi to write notes of gratitude to ten women who enabled her life as an immigrant. Why Wait for Eulogies chronicles Lakshmi's experience in this journey and her witnessing first-hand how the expression of gratitude spills joy many times over. In doing so, Lakshmi urges people to celebrate love and friendship; to take the time to express gratitude to the people that matter in big ways and small, before it is too late.Why Wait for Eulogies is ultimately a joyful celebration of friendship, love, gratitude, and powerful themes that unite each of us. It is about the power of appreciation to open the door to vulnerable, honest conversations, and the ability for us to generate and spread joy each day

Writing for Children and Teens

Author : Cynthea Liu
Publisher : Pivotal Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1605301140
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Writing for Children and Teens written by Cynthea Liu and published by Pivotal Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive, current, and detailed writing skills course designed specifically for writing children and teen books, written by a children's and young adult author who is in the field today. WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS: A CRASH COURSE is a ten-step course that relays all the nitty-gritty details of the business, beginning with how to evaluate your book idea all the way to pitching your book to editors and agents. Within each step, you'll find clear and specific information covering topics such as the children's book market, manuscript format, commonly made mistakes and editing tips to beef up your writing skills, finding the right literary agent or children's book publisher, and professional submission etiquette. This book will even tell you what kind of paper you should use and exactly how you should write your email or letter pitches to editors and agents. Bonus materials include templates for all of your submission needs as well as examples of real-life editorial letters sent to authors from editors today. You will get a complete inside peak to the children's and YA fiction writing market for those who want to write picture books, easy readers, chapter books, and middle grade or young adult/teen novels.

We all know how this ends

Author : Anna Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472966783
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book We all know how this ends written by Anna Lyons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast 'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in Mind End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day. From working with the living, the dying, the dead and the grieving, Anna and Louise reveal the lessons they've learned about life, death, love and loss. Together they've created a profound but practical guide to rethinking the one thing that's guaranteed to happen to us all. We are all going to die, and that's ok. Let's talk about it. This is a book about life and living, as much as it's a book about death and dying. It's a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It's as simple and as complicated as that.

Eulogy on King Philip

Author : William Apess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eulogy on King Philip written by William Apess and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tuesdays with Morrie

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307414094
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

Live Your Best Life

Author : Mimi Emmanuel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975956059
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Live Your Best Life written by Mimi Emmanuel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live Your Best Life by writing your own eulogy includes sample eulogy to-be, templates and reverse engineer how-to's. This book will change your life, for sure. Read this short one-hour-book to change your life for the better. . "A WELL WRITTEN BOOK, A SUPERB IDEA" . HOW TO LIVE A WONDERFUL LIFE? WRITE YOUR OWN EULOGY! Mimi's Eulogy-to-be is a sample of how to write your own eulogy and includes a template with directions for anyone at any stage in their life to create a life filled with joy. Is it possible to design a path to Joy and heal your Life? How do we get the life we want? Sometimes we need a wake-up call to understand that "Our life does not just 'happen, ' but whether we know it or not, it is carefully designed by us as quoted from Dr Covey's bestseller. . This is what happened for Mimi Mimi's appendix had ruptured, septicemia was spreading through her abdominal wall. Surgeons decided against operating, citing a 3 in 5 chance of an adverse outcome. Hideous pain relentlessly pulsated through her body whilst her daughter continuously refused for morphine to be administered. My Story of Survival explains what happened when her eldest daughter received a premonition a couple of weeks before Mimi's medical emergency admission to hospital. It is now nearly ten years later and Mimi is thriving. One essential component of her recovery was her change of mindset which came about when her Guardian Angel kicked her bum and wrote her eulogy. 'Is this how you would like to be remembered?' This powerful meditation became the thought she went to bed with and the thought she woke up with. 'Hell no!' She did not want to be remembered for her untidy drawers, her failures, her decline in social status, poor health, broken relationship, loss of home and fortune. Manifest your dreams How does she want to be remembered? Her aspirations and dreams are written up in her eulogy to-be. It doesn't matter if you believe in angels or not. 'Something or someone' in the universe listens in when we write down our deepest desires and wishes as if they have already happened. And there is a response and 'things' happen. Good things mainly. How did she recover? After Mimi's Eulogy to-be was written, she's become a bestselling author and her books have listed #1 bestseller in more than 40 categories on Amazon. Now Mimi is sharing her formula so that others can also recover from life's inevitable knocks and bumps in the road and thrive and live their best possible life. A Eulogy to-be cuts through all the fluff in no time and as such is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to turn things around NOW! At mid-life Mimi felt that time was running out and she needed a quick fix that would easily and rapidly impact her life in a positive way. Writing her eulogy to-be made a tremendous impact in Mimi's life and community. For inspiration on how to write your own eulogy to-be read Mimi's. And also her daughter's which arguably could well be 'The Best Eulogy Ever Written, ' when the time arrives. In addition read famous eulogies such as The Rev. Mychal Judge by the Rev. Michael Duffy and Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi's Funeral Eulogy by Jawaharlal Nehru. Diana Spencer by her brother Charles Spencer, Space Shuttle Challenger Crew by Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks by Oprah Winfrey, Steve Irwin by Bindi Irwin, Steve Jobs by Mona Simpson, The Rev. Clementa Pinckney by President Barack Obama, Graham Chapman by John Cleese, Lorna Colbert by Stephen Colbert and Richard Nixon by Bill Clinton. Your Story creates a legacy; make it the best it can be! Yes, you can continue drifting through life and allow things to 'happen to you.' Or you can reverse engineer your life, grab hold of it and 'make it behave!' There is something miraculous about sharing your dreams and aspirations with the universe; Angels listen in...

Good Mourning

Author : Elizabeth Meyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476783659
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Good Mourning written by Elizabeth Meyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Meyer’s “sweet, touching, and funny” (Booklist) memoir reads as if “Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City’s Upper East Side—mixing big money, society drama, and the universal experience of grieving—told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner. Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father’s funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother’s favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city’s most high-powered residents. Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes, singular) was living a double life, a famous corpse with a missing brain, and funerals that cost more than most weddings. By turns illuminating, emotional, and darkly humorous, Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows—whether you’re wearing this season’s couture or drug-store flip-flops.

What Happens in Tomorrow World?

Author : Jordan Gross
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1953295185
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book What Happens in Tomorrow World? written by Jordan Gross and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and TEDx speaker Jordan Gross's What Happens in Tomorrow World? offers a poignant, relatable, and necessary parable for navigating uncertainty. What Happens in Tomorrow World? tells the story of Opti, Pessi, Chill, and Sage—four prizes found in a traditional arcade claw machine game, and what happens when one special player, Cayla "Catch" Alltoys, plays their game. As Catch maneuvers the claw over, down, and around them, the four prizes face their own crisis—the possibility of what will happen when they are removed from their safe environment and thrust into the unknown "real" world. Each prize reacts in one of the four typical responses most people have to facing uncertain situations. And it is through those reactions, and subsequent actions, that they—and we—learn how our own responses to uncertainty can either help or harm ourselves, those around us, and society as a whole. An urgently needed guide for managing the anxiety and ambiguity in our daily lives, this book will help readers thrive in challenging situations. Through this memorable story, you'll learn: • How to embrace uncertainty in all parts of life • Why no single response to uncertainty works for every situation • How various personality types typically respond differently to uncertainty • Why it's crucial to resist responding negatively to uncertainty • Why it's important to take action, no matter how uncertain you feel In the spirit of Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? presents a modern, unique, and useful toolbox for confronting and managing the overwhelming amount of uncertainty we face every day.

The Fault in Our Stars

Author : John Green
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101569182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Fault in Our Stars written by John Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down “John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars “The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. From John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

The Secrets to Happiness at Work

Author : Tracy Brower PhD
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 172823090X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Secrets to Happiness at Work written by Tracy Brower PhD and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and practical guide, tailored to help you achieve balance, fulfillment, and joy in your professional life. The Secrets to Happiness at Work book brings together proven strategies from positive psychology, mindfulness, and personal growth to transform your work experience. Dr. Tracy Brower, PhD, MM, MCRw is a sociologist and an award-winning speaker and has over 25 years of experience working with global clients to achieve business results. Her work has been featured in TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Fortune.com. Within the pages of this transformative guide, you will discover: Key principles of positive psychology to help you improve job satisfaction Practical mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and improve focus Personal growth strategies to unlock your potential and improve performance Tips on achieving work-life balance to enhance overall well-being Insights on fostering a positive work culture and nurturing professional relationships This guide is not just for those feeling dissatisfied in their current position, but for anyone seeking to boost their happiness at work. From managers aiming to improve workplace morale, to individuals seeking personal growth and satisfaction, The Secrets to Happiness at Work is an invaluable tool for creating a more positive and productive professional life. An ideal read for career coaches, HR professionals, corporate trainers, or anyone looking to improve their work life.

Good Words

Author : Beth L. Hewett Ph.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490838031
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Good Words written by Beth L. Hewett Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a certified grief counselor, combines academic expertise . . . with her own and others personal experiences in this helpful resource. . . . [She] thoughtfully directs grief-stricken readers through the steps to create a moving, truthful speech. Kirkus Indie Review The eulogy: its not about the bowling scores. Its about who our loved ones werethe human qualities, virtues, and noble deeds that made them people of value in the world. Good Words: Memorializing through a Eulogy teaches how a eulogy can help us in difficult times of grief. Dr. Hewett shares how eulogies can be written at the time of death, before a loved one has died and shared with him or her, and even years later as a way to remember and honor an important person in our lives. This book walks readers through the writing process to help them develop powerful and personal eulogies based on time-honored strategies. It also teaches readers how to deliver the eulogy effectively. Good Words is full of useful information about eulogies, such as: how and when to include children in the ceremony, how to write eulogies for difficult situations like suicide or strained relationships, how to revise and polish a eulogy after the funeral or memorial ceremony, and how various religious perspectives from a wide variety of spiritual traditions might influence the eulogy. This book offers contemporary twists on classical eulogy writing, including using websites and YouTube to deliver the good words. Like no other book on the market, Good Words assists readers with writing their own good words of praise, blessing, and honor upon the death of a loved one.

From Eulogy to Joy

Author : Kristina Chase Strom
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462823079
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book From Eulogy to Joy written by Kristina Chase Strom and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Eulogy To Joy is a unique, autobiographical anthology. These moving and thought-provoking personal stories are shared from the heart and contain the words of people who are experts by virtue of having experienced grief firsthand in myriad situations: loss of children, siblings, parents, mates, relatives and friends through accidents, illness, suicide, murder and natural death. From Eulogy to Joy provides comfort and reassurance that grief is intensely individual and, as such, all responses are appropriate. This book unveils the revolutionary fact that, contrary to common belief, we never get over the death of someone close and actually never should. Rather, death is a life-transforming experience to get through and eventually grow through to a place of inner peace and renewed joy. There is only one name on the death certificate. Read From Eulogy To Joy and learn that life is full of commencements, not terminations. Bernie Siegel, MD, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles beautiful book...on a very important topic...approached in a very heartfelt way... Dr.Richard Carlson, author of Dont Sweat the Small Stuff From Eulogy To Joy is a wonder...so important and helpful. Theres nothing like it out there. Im proud to be included. May this book help millions. Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom I was deeply moved by the voices from the heart in From Eulogy To Joy. It will inspire us all as we feel we are alone in facing death. The words are clear and real. Dr. Jenny Yates, author of Jung on Death and Immortality The pieces in From Eulogy To Joy are written by people from all walks of life, from the mundane to the magnificent. Among them are: Neale Donald Walsh, the New York Times best selling author of Conversations with God, Books I, II and III; Judy Belushi, who wrote Samurai Widow after the death of her husband John; and Dr. Rabbi Earl Grollman, author of Living When A Loved One Has Died and Living with Loss: Healing with Hope--A Jewish Perspective. www.celestialperspectives.com/fromeulogytojoy

Reading My Father

Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591818
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Reading My Father written by Alexandra Styron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.

The Non-Obvious Guide to Event Planning (for Kick-Ass Gatherings That Inspire People)

Author : Andrea Driessen
Publisher : Non-Obvious Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781940858616
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Non-Obvious Guide to Event Planning (for Kick-Ass Gatherings That Inspire People) written by Andrea Driessen and published by Non-Obvious Guides. This book was released on 2019 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like having coffee with an expert, this book shares irreverent tips and secrets from Chief Boredom Buster and 25 year event planning expert Andrea Driessen on how to plan an event that will get people talking and participating. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one - with actionable tips to transform your event planning approach within hours.

Denton Little's Deathdate

Author : Lance Rubin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147112424X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Denton Little's Deathdate written by Lance Rubin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Denton's funny, self-effacing genuineness will keep readers rooting for him' Kirkus Reviews 'Full belly-laugh funny' Notes From The Underground 'Freaking hilarious' goodreads.com 'Very, very funny . . . fresh, original and an absolute joy to read' thebookbag.co.uk 'This book! Oh my god, this book is brilliant! … It's so exciting and awesome! Who has ever heard of a teen angsty, hilariously funny, fast-paced, exciting dystopian? I love it!' Once Upon a Bookcase The first of two books, Denton Little's Deathdateis an utterly gripping read - with a killer plot twist, hilarious characters, and atruly memorable voice. Imminent death has never been so funny!Denton Little's Deathdatetakes place in a world exactly like our own - except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton, that's in just two days - the day of his senior prom. Despite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life - but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangle (the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friend's sister. Though he's not totallysure - see, first hangover). His anxiety builds when he discovers a mysterious purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? Then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Denton's long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious characters . . . Suddenly Denton's life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers. Debut author Lance Rubin takes us on a fast, gripping, and outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager's life as he searches for love, meaning and (just maybe) a way to live on . . .

Death Is Nothing at All

Author : Canon Henry Scott Holland
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780285628243
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Death Is Nothing at All written by Canon Henry Scott Holland and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.

Parting Ways

Author : Denise Carson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949412
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Parting Ways written by Denise Carson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Denise Carson contrasts her father’s passing in the 1980s, governed by the structures of institutionalized death, with her mother’s death some two decades later. Carson’s moving account of her mother’s dying at home vividly portrays a ceremonial farewell known as a living wake, showing how it closed the gap between social and biological death while opening the door for family and friends to reminisce with her mother. Carson also investigates a variety of solutions--living funerals, oral ethical wills, and home funerals--that revise the impending death scenario. Integrating the profoundly personal with the objectively historical, Parting Ways calls for an "end of life revolution" to change the way of death in America.