Funeral Circus
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Funerals To Die For
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Author : Kathy Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-18
Funerals To Die For written by Kathy Benjamin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-18 with Humor categories.
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.
Funeral Circus
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Author : Warwick Wood
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Release Date : 2021-07-30
Funeral Circus written by Warwick Wood and has been published by Austin Macauley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-30 with categories.
Thirty-five years ago, life was perfect for Jane Rhys - well almost. A group of six friends, who worked side-by-side in the kitchen of the Ritz Hotel in eighties' London, now seem only to reconnect at funerals. Jane, one of the six, has been diagnosed with an incurable strain of cancer and been given less than a year to live. Hers might be the next funeral. All she wants to do now is go back, relive, and perhaps correct one imperfection. But be careful what you wish for. At the funeral of her one-time boss and executive chef, Kelvin Peverrel, her life takes an unexpected turn. Jane now must struggle with life, love, survival, death and a new reality, today, in her past, and at a time before she was born, with her friends from the kitchen.
And In The End
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Author : Keith R. Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Fusion Press
Release Date : 2006
And In The End written by Keith R. Lindsay and has been published by Fusion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Family & Relationships categories.
Full of anecdotes on the weirdest funerals and final resting places the world over, this guidebook is a tongue-in-cheek romp to an aspect of life that frightens most people. Discussing the burial practices of the past—from the embalming practices of ancient Egyptians to the funeral pyres used in India—while looking closely at how death and funeral services are practiced today, this humorously macabre guide answers questions such asWhat kind of party should be held at a funeral ceremony?Who should be invited to speak?Should flowers be sent?andWhat music should be played?A lively discussion on the history of being buried alive and 10 ideas on how to stop it from happening to you is also included.
Funeral Customs
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Author : Bertram S. Puckle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Funeral Customs written by Bertram S. Puckle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Funeral rites and ceremonies categories.
What A Way To Go
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Author : Adele Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-02
What A Way To Go written by Adele Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Social Science categories.
A&E Biography meets Tales from the Crypt in this fun but respectful survey of the amazing lives and astonishing funerals of two dozen twentieth-century icons from politics, art, and pop culture. In more than 50 rare photographs and thoroughly researched profiles, What a Way to Go showcases all the colorful details of each subject's death, funeral service, and burial. From Muppet creator Jim Henson's upbeat service, attended by Big Bird, to Babe Ruth lying in state at Yankee Stadium as vendors sold hot dogs to waiting mourners--it's all here, the moving and the macabre. JFK, Notorious B.I.G., Elvis Presley, Chairman Mao, Eva Peron, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and many more find fitting tribute in this compulsively readable, visually lavish, richly entertaining celebration of our enduring fascination with the famous and the strange pageantry of their demise.
How To Have An Interesting Funeral
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Author : Timeka Willis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-09
How To Have An Interesting Funeral written by Timeka Willis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-09 with categories.
This is Your Funeral Which Means You Can Have it Anyway You Want it. You Can Have it be at a Zoo and Circus People from Cirque du Soleil. You Can Have Ben And Jerry's Make Your Ice Cream, and You Can Share Your Exciting Love Life and Achievements on Your Obituary. Did You make Friends Around the World Talk about Them in Your Obituary and Maybe They Will even Be in Attendance at Your Ceremony. Create an Interesting Funeral while You are Still Healthy to Plan it.
Funeral March
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
Funeral March written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.
The Final Curtain
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Author : Garlick
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-20
The Final Curtain written by Garlick and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with History categories.
Death is the one subject about which our culture is still reticent. Consequently many ceremonies about death are not examined in an open, enquiring and direct way. The state funeral, that large, public, ritualized statement about death is accepted in our society, while its deeper significances remain unexamined because it is seen as something of an historical curiosity, a survival from an earlier age associated with the traditions of that society. This well-illustrated study of a number of state funerals - of the Medicis and the Habsburgs in the Renaissance, of the Duke of Albemarle in the seventeenth century, of the Duke of Wellington and Abraham Lincoln in the nineteenth century, and of President Kennedy and Diana, Princess of Wales in the twentieth century - and the mythical structures and traditions they represent, examines two aspects in particular: the strongly political undertones of the public statements, and the theatrical elements of the public ritual.
Gertie S Real Life Adventures
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Author : Jane Dahl
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-10-20
Gertie S Real Life Adventures written by Jane Dahl and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-20 with Social Science categories.
Ten-year-old Gertie Larson shares three of her most exciting real-life adventures experienced in her hometown of Richfield, Utah, in the early 1900s. In her first adventure, her disappointment at not having a birthday party is unexpectedly overcome when she, her two sisters, her best friend, and a mentally handicapped youth she befriends are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ride Jumbo the elephant in the circus parade! In her second adventure, a little Ute Indian girl, a What I Have to Be Thankful For essay contest, and a spooky encounter in an abandoned mine with the thing, move her story along to the third and final adventure. Gertie's third adventure climaxes her two previous ones and includes a community birthday parade for an unlikely birthday celebrant; Gertie's being the volunteer in a demonstration of the pain-relieving properties of a new drug, Novocain; and a surprise wedding. Woven throughout Gertie's adventures are lessons of faith, love, and family unity. How these lessons affect Gertie, her family, and her friends make Gertie's Real-Life Adventures joyful reading.
Funeral Festivals In America
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Author : Jacqueline S. Thursby
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Funeral Festivals In America written by Jacqueline S. Thursby and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Social Science categories.
When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how technical and extraordinarily creative human funerary practices would become in the ensuing decades. In Funeral Festivals in America, author Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death. The typical American response to death often develops into a celebration that reestablishes links or strengthens ties between family members and friends. The increasingly important funerary banquet, for example, honors an often well-lived life in order to help survivors accept the change that death brings and to provide healing fellowship. At such celebrations and other forms of the traditional wake, participants often use humor to add another dimension to expressing both the personality of the deceased and their ties to a particular ethnic heritage. In her research and interviews, Thursby discovered the paramount importance of food as part of the funeral ritual. During times of loss, individuals want to be consoled, and this is often accomplished through the preparation and consumption of nourishing, comforting foods. In the Intermountain West, Funeral Potatoes, a potato-cheese casserole, has become an expectation at funeral meals; Muslim families often bring honey flavored fruits and vegetables to the funeral table for their consoling familiarity; and many Mexican Americans continue the tradition of tamale making as a way to bring people together to talk, to share memories, and to simply enjoy being together. Funeral Festivals in America examines rituals for loved ones separated by death, frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites, and personalized memorials and grave markers. Thursby concludes that though Americans come from many different cultural traditions, they deal with death in a largely similar approach. They emphasize unity and embrace rites that soothe the distress of death as a way to heal and move forward.