Confessions Of A Funeral Director
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Confessions Of A Funeral Director
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Author : Caleb Wilde
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-09-26
Confessions Of A Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Religion categories.
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
Dying To Meet You Confessions Of A Funeral Director
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Author : Angjolie Mei
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2019-01-31
Dying To Meet You Confessions Of A Funeral Director written by Angjolie Mei and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-31 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked
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Author : Robert Webster
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked written by Robert Webster and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on bhind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets The biggest rip-offs in the business The crazy things that happen to a body after death Lime, waz, and other ways to hide the truth The most important thing an undertaker does How to avoid the high-pressure funeral parlor What that's not a coffin the body is resting in
Coffin Confessor The
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Author : Bill Edgar
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Coffin Confessor The written by Bill Edgar and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with categories.
Confronting and confounding, heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Coffin Confessor is a compelling story of survival and redemption, of a life lived on the fringes of society, on both sides of the law and what that can teach you about living your best life . . . and death.
Down Among The Dead Men
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Author : Michelle Williams
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-06-24
Down Among The Dead Men written by Michelle Williams and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Michelle Williams is young and attractive, she has close family ties as well as a busy social life - but she is far from usual. She is a mortuary technician and her job involves dealing with those things in life that many people do not wish to experience directly. Yet life in the mortuary is neither gruesome nor sad. Told with good humour and common sense, we are introduced to a host of characters - the pathologists, many of them eccentric, some downright mad; the undertakers, the hospital porters and the man from the coroner's office who sings to Michelle every morning. The incidents too ensure that no two days are ever the same. From the tragic to the hilarious they include: The fitness fanatic who was run over as he did pressups in the road on a dark night The decapitated motorcyclist The guide dog who led his owner on to the railway tracks - and left him there The forty stone man for whom an entire refrigerated lorry had to be hired because he wouldn't fit in the mortuary cooler Over the course of her first year Michelle has to deal with situations and emotions that few of us will ever experience, and does so while retaining a sense of humour and a sense of perspective.
Dad Can I Borrow The Hearse
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Author : Thomas J. Van Kula
language : en
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Dad Can I Borrow The Hearse written by Thomas J. Van Kula and has been published by Gatekeeper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Located within the boundaries of one of the East Side of Detroit's "bluest" of blue collar neighborhoods, 9074 St. Cyril Avenue served a dual purpose - funeral home and family residence. Occupying the first floor of the impressive yellow bricked structure from 1942 until 1978 was the Van Kula Funeral Home - the second floor I called home. For over four decades I was associated with death and dying on an almost daily occurrence. Residing over a funeral home with five siblings added to the plenitude of memories - poignant, humorous and enduring. As an observer and eventual practitioner of one of the world's oldest professions, I have borne witness to human nature under the most demanding of emotional circumstances. In "DAD, CAN I BORROW THE HEARSE?" I have attempted to present a summary of events as they related to me - "The Funeral Director's Kid".
Confessions Of An L A Funeral Director
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Author : Denny Dormody
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Confessions Of An L A Funeral Director written by Denny Dormody and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Humor categories.
It’s rainy. The oncoming headlights are blinding me. I have to stay awake. It’s 2:00 A.M. and less than two feet behind me is the body of a woman scheduled for burial in about six hours... A 24 year-old Hispanic male has taken a bullet to the head. A drug deal gone bad. The Mortician in charge has done a remarkable job hiding the head wound. The wound is invisible... This was no White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. No Beverly Hills. No Beverly Thrills. It was a step above a flop house and maybe only a half-step... Every day in the City of Angels and Actors, hundreds of people are buried. These are their stories... L.A. Funeral Director and comedy writer Denny Dormody, a working actor and an active member of the Screen Actors Guild, moonlights to pay the rent... "Denny Dormody, I hope you become a better writer." -- Kirk Douglas "Good to meet you. Good luck and good writing..." -- Michael Connelly, Author, The Black Box Comedy scribes Denny Dormody & Michael Conley have inked with Loeb & Loeb for Literary representation -- The Hollywood Reporter
Mortuary Confidential
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Author : Todd Harra
language : en
Publisher: Citadel
Release Date : 2021-12-28
Mortuary Confidential written by Todd Harra and has been published by Citadel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.
Curtains
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Author : Tom Jokinen
language : en
Publisher: Random House Canada
Release Date : 2010-03-09
Curtains written by Tom Jokinen and has been published by Random House Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-09 with Social Science categories.
If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny. "There's a time, from when someone dies to when they magically pop up at the funeral or as a bag of ashes, that remains a black hole, invisible to civilians, and they're happy with that arrangement. My job covers that gap." At forty-four Tom Jokinen began to seriously question the secular funeral rites that are taking over the industry: is this really the way we want to say our final goodbyes? The question had such a hard grip on his Finnish soul that he decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker. Curtainsis about what he found, from the mundane to the macabre. Among the things he learned: in cremation, the heart and head are the last parts to burn; purple lipstick looks best on a dead man; funeral directors have been known to dance during the service - out of sight of funeral goers, of course, and with the utmost respect for the dead. For anyone who's secretly wondered why they paid $2000 for a 5-lb bag of dust - or questioned whether that dust was really the person they loved - Curtains lifts the veil on the funeral industry in the 21st century.
Putting Makeup On Dead People
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Author : Jen Violi
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-24
Putting Makeup On Dead People written by Jen Violi and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Since her father's death four years ago, Donna has gone through the motions of living: her friendships are empty, she's clueless about what to do after high school graduation, and her grief keeps her isolated, cut off even from the one parent she has left. That is until she's standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at Brighton Brothers' Funeral Home. At that moment, Donna realizes what might just give her life purpose is comforting others in death.