Funerals To Die For

Author : Kathy Benjamin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781440557088

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Funerals to Die For by Kathy Benjamin Pdf

True stories that put the, er, "fun" back into funerals! The hereafter may still be part of the great unknown, but with Funerals to Die For you can unearth the rich--and often, dark--history of funeral rites. From getting a portrait painted with a loved one's ashes to purchasing a safety coffin complete with bells and breathing tubes, this book takes you on a whirlwind tour of funeral customs and trivia from all over the globe. Inside, you'll find more than 100 unbelievable traditions, practices, and facts, such as: The remains of a loved one can be launched into deep space for only $1,000. In Taiwan, strippers are hired to entertain funeral guests throughout the ceremony. Undertakers for the Tongan royal family weren't allowed to use their hands for 100 days after preparing a king's body. In the late 1800s, New Englanders would gulp down a cocktail of water and their family member's ashes in order to keep them from returning as vampires. Whether you fear being buried alive or just have a morbid curiosity of the other side, Funerals to Die For examines what may happen when another person dies.

Author : Michaelene Mundy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781497696594

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What Happens When Someone Dies? by Michaelene Mundy Pdf

The author of the top-selling Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss here helps children as they first experience the reality—and the mystery—of death and funerals. She carefully explains to children how we celebrate the life of a departed one through both sadness and joy. A sampling of the titles of the various booklet sections: Why Do People Die? Does It Hurt to Die? What Happens at the Funeral Home? What Will It Be Like at the Church Service? What Happens at the Cemetery? What Can I Do About My Sad Feelings? What Will Heaven Be Like? When Will Everything Be OK Again? Through her experience as a counselor, teacher, mother, and accomplished children’s author, Michaelene Mundy here offers a loving and truly helpful guide for kids.

Author : Lucinda Herring
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623172930

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Reimagining Death by Lucinda Herring Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Old City Cemetery
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Cookbooks
ISBN : 0975982206

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Food to Die for by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Long,Thomas Lynch
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664238537

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The Good Funeral by Thomas G. Long,Thomas Lynch Pdf

"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boy„the presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." „from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are" Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses„one as a preacher and one as a funeral director„Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else with an interest in current funeral practices.

Author : Caleb Wilde
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062465269

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Confessions of a Funeral Director by Caleb Wilde Pdf

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 : Angjolie Mei
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814757492

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Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director by Angjolie Mei Pdf

Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how the death of her father—a veteran known as ‘The Coffin King’ in the funeral industry—prompted this dramatic choice. What exactly happens during embalming? What kind of post-death restoration is needed for second-degree burn victims? What are the little-known facts surrounding suicide in Singapore? Angjolie offers the insider’s view on these and other aspects of an industry usually shrouded in mystery, and reflects on how her perceptions of death, and life, have changed since she chose this extraordinary profession.

Author : Anna Lyons,Louise Winter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781472966780

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We all know how this ends by Anna Lyons,Louise Winter Pdf

'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.

Author : Kathy Benjamin
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781683692959

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It's Your Funeral! by Kathy Benjamin Pdf

You can’t attend your own funeral. But you can have a blast planning it! Death is scary—but planning your funeral doesn't have to be! It's Your Funeral! will help demystify death, decrease your anxiety, and put the fun back in funeral, whether that means a drunken bacchanal or a somber reflection on just how great you were. Every stage of the legacy planning process is considered, from a burial outfit to a funeral theme. Practical and cheeky questions alike are answered, including: • What is the most eco-friendly burial method? • Can I write my own obituary? • Can my body be shot into space after I die? • How can I manage my digital legacy? Offering a plethora of curious facts, strange stories, and inspiration to help you think outside the coffin, It’s Your Funeral! includes worksheets that will ensure your wishes are recorded for posterity. Planning for death should be the time of your life, so let’s get started!

Author : Unity Dow,Myron Essex
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0674050770

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Saturday Is for Funerals by Unity Dow,Myron Essex Pdf

Dow and Essex tell the true story of lives in Botswana ravaged by AIDS. Witness the actions of community leaders, medical professionals, research scientists, and educators of all types to see how an unprecedented epidemic of death and destruction is being stopped in its tracks.

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393249903

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Author : Tony Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134814633

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The Revival of Death by Tony Walter Pdf

The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Leo Touchet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173244336X

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Rejoice When You Die - the New Orleans Jazz Funerals by Leo Touchet Pdf

Catalog of photographs from an exhibit of the New Orleans Jazz Funerals from 1968 to 1970.

Author : Gail Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0984596208

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A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die by Gail Rubin Pdf

Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets.

Author : Charles Cowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781441133229

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The Good Funeral Guide by Charles Cowling Pdf

The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who: - needs to arrange a funeral for someone now - has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent - wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself - wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral - would like to learn about deaths and funerals Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a book we will all need - probably at least twice.