Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-12-09
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1416564047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the embalming process and the impact the standard funeral has on the environment while also discussing alternative eco-friendly burials.
Author: Glennys Howarth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-03
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1351843338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2017. This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.
Author: Gary Laderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-03-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0199881243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it? In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the increasing subordination of priests, ministers, and other religious figures to the funeral director throughout the twentieth century. In doing so he shows that far from manipulating vulnerable mourners, as Jessica Mitford claimed in her best-selling The American Way of Death (1963), funeral directors are highly respected figures whose services reflect the community's deepest needs and wishes. Indeed, Laderman shows that funeral directors generally give the people what they want when it is time to bury our dead. He reveals, for example, that the open casket, often criticized as barbaric, provides a deeply meaningful moment for friends and family who must say goodbye to their loved one. But he also shows how the dead often come back to life in the popular imagination to disturb the peace of the living. Drawing upon interviews with funeral directors, major historical events like the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Rudolf Valentino, films, television, newspaper reports, proposals for funeral reform, and other primary sources, Rest in Peace cuts through the rhetoric to show us the reality--and the real cultural value--of the American funeral.
Author: Robert Wesley Habenstein
Publisher: Milwaukee : Bulfin
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13:
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Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 066423853X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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 boythe 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 lensesone as a preacher and one as a funeral directorThomas 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: Dean G. Lampros
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1421448408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape"--
Author: Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-08-05
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1416982760
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Edward Searl
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558964075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Practical and sensitive guide for planning memorial services. Includes advice for creating a unique and appropriate service to fit any circumstance. Offers material on writing obituaries, alternative settings, the rural cemetery movement, interment of ashes, cremation and selecting monuments and memorials. Plus sample services to be adapted or used as they are.