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Confessions of a Funeral Director - How Death Saved My Life (Paperback)
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Confessions of a Funeral Director - How Death Saved My Life (Paperback)
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"I tremble to say there's good in death, because I've looked in the
eyes of the grieving mother and I've seen the heartbreak of the
stricken widow, but I've also seen something more in death,
something good. Death's hands aren't all bony and cold."-from
Confessions of a Funeral Director 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.
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