Confessions of a funeral director
Subtitle: how the business of death saved my life
By: Caleb Wilde
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780062465245
Subjects: Undertakers and undertaking; Death; Biography; Death care industry; Christianity
Description: The author recounts his experiences as a sixth generation funeral director, sharing how the practice of caring for the dead and their loved ones profoundly changed his faith and views on death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Death Negative; title: Playtime in the Casket Room; title: Broken Open; title: Death Sabbath; title: Searching for the Divine in the Dark; title: Sacred Dirt; title: The Myth of the Death-Care Amateur; title: Front-Door Policy; title: Listening to the Voice of Silence; title: Grief as Worship; title: Sara's Mosaic; title: Heaven on Earth; title: Sam McKinney's Mysticism; title: Active Remembering; title: Finding My Words; title: Yin and Yang; title: Ten Confessions: An Epilogue.