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What Remains?
Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. “Rupert Callender hope[s] to redefine the funeral.”—The Telegraph When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. What Remains? is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world’s first punk undertaker—but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way. In becoming the world’s first “punk undertaker” and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stil...
The Life and Deaths of an Undertaker
The end of the twentieth century is nigh. As the world edges its way towards a new millennium, the Berlin Wall falls, a new anti-depressant drug called Prozac is unveiled, Maradona cheats at the World Cup, The Simpsons - both the cartoon and the OJ versions - dominate our TV screens, and a new-fangled innovation called the World Wide Web is tentatively launched. And during all of this time a young chap by the name of Tom Eldwin works as an undertaker in Westport, South Wales. Set in a part of the British Isles where funerals are very traditional, this is the true story of a young Englishman who takes on the challenging yet rewarding career of undertaking in what seems like a foreign country;...
The Undertaking
Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve essays is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between 'the living and the living who have dies' with the same outrage and amazement, straining for the same glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave-markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are essays of rare elegance and grace, full of fierce compassion and rich in humour and humanity - lessons taught to the living by the dead.
What Remains?
Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. "Rupert Callender hope[s] to redefine the funeral."--The Telegraph When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. What Remains? is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world's first punk undertaker--but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way. In becoming the world's first "punk undertaker" and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted, traditional, s...
From Coffin-making to Undertaking
This thesis examines the manner in which undertakers moved from merely providing coffins for the dead to developing the full service industry of funeral directing during the late nineteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, an undertaker might provide coffins for the deceased only as a sideline to his other business and offered no other services. By 1900, the undertaker handled all necessary preparations for interring a corpse--from picking up the body, embalming and laying the body out, providing a coffin, purchasing the cemetery lot and digging the grave, coordinating and staffing the funeral, and providing grief counseling for mourners--and called himself a "funeral director." This thesis traces the development of the funeral directing industry in Baltimore during the pivotal decade of the 1880s, when many of the changes took place. The study uses primary source materials of daybooks, account books, artifacts, and advertisements in City Directories to examine the work of both a rural and an urban undertaker
An Odd Undertaking
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertakingfeatures Bill Wood's memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don't go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
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Undertakings of an Undertaker
Could these remains, yet to be identified, be one of the victims of Rochester's Genesee River killer? Did the mourner in the chapel with the casket and the deceased actually think there was an apparition present? Is it legal to bury a man with no pants? Would a man really drive his deceased wife to a mortuary instead of calling the authorities? Those ashes seeping from the fractured urn...imagined or real? The black cat visiting the deceased man's wake...a family friend or fiend? These are just some of the intriguing, unusual and funny stories to be found in Undertakings of an Undertaker: True Stories of Being Laid to Rest. Author Stanley Swan spent 37 years in funeral service, making notes ...
History of Original Rev. Stephen Merritt and Circumstances Incident to the Formation of the World-wide Known Undertaking Business
Details Merritt's break with the Stephen Merritt Burial and Cremation Co. and the founding of Stephen Merritt Undertakers.
