Curtains: Adventures of an undertaker in training (Paperback)
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor_City_Books.
If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny. "There's a time, from when someone dies to when they magically pop up at the funeral or as a bag of ashes, that remains a black hole, invisible to civilians, and they're happy with that arrangement. My job covers that gap." At forty-four Tom Jokinen began to seriously question the secular funeral rites that are taking over the industry: is this really the way we want to say our final goodbyes? The question had such a hard grip on his Finnish soul that he decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker. Curtainsis about what he found, from the mundane to the macabre. Among the things he learned: in cremation, the heart and head are the last parts to burn; purple lipstick looks best on a dead man; funeral directors have been known to dance during the service - out of sight of funeral goers, of course, and with the utmost respect for the dead. For anyone who's secretly wondered why they paid $2000 for a 5-lb bag of dust - or questioned whether that dust was really the person they loved - Curtains lifts the veil on the funeral industry in the 21st century. From the Hardcover edition., Paperback, Format: International Edition, Label: Vintage Canada, Vintage Canada, Product group: Book, Published: 2011-03-01, Release date: 2011-03-01, Studio: Vintage Canada, Sales rank: 10334224.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Media Mall.
U.Q.P., 2010. Paperback. New. If Bill Bryson were to join a funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains . At 44, Tom Jokinen quit a good government job to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium as a trainee undertaker. This drastic vocational change gave him an amazing opportunity to explore, first-hand, our culture's relationship with the dead, dying, and left behind. In a modern society where religion has lost its grip on rituals of transition, the funeral trade is fighting to find ways to make its work relevant to a new, secular, consumer culture, and positioning itself for its biggest potential wave of income ever: the death of the baby boomers. Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker in Training is a hair-raising and hilarious first-person account of Jokinen's adventures. Outside of his work, which includes embalming, dressing bodies and cleaning corpses down to their fingernails, Jokinen attends a funeral trade show in Las Vegas and visits Los Angeles and San Francisco, the meccas of the new funeral customs and eco-friendly or 'green' burials: no casket, no embalming chemicals, but straight into the ground, in a forest, to let nature unfold. Some of the new customs approach circus absurdity, but all raise the key issue of 'What is the appropriate response to death?' Enlightening, funny and full of life in the midst of death, Curtains lifts the veil on the death and funeral industry in the 21st century. SKU: MM-40004414; EAN: 9780702238512.

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At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic.), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff. If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you'd have Curtains.

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At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff. If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you’d have Curtains. Productinformatie:Taal: Engels;Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe;Bestandsgrootte: 1.00 MB;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;Printrechten: Het printen van de pagina's is niet toegestaan;Voorleesfunctie: De voorleesfunctie is uitgeschakeld;Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers te koop bij bol.com (of compatible met Adobe DRM). Telefoons/tablets met Google Android (1.6 of hoger) voorzien van bol.com boekenbol app. PC en Mac met Adobe reader software;ISBN10: 0306818965;ISBN13: 9780306818967; Engels | Ebook | 2010.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Grand Eagle Retail [50531827], Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. At 44, Tom Jokinen quit a good government job to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium as a trainee undertaker. This drastic vocational change gave him an amazing opportunity t.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 288 pages. 0.372.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Adelaide Booksellers.
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 2010. Near Fine condition. Excellent condition 279 pages A hair-raising and hilarious account of Jokinen's adventure when he quites his government job in Canada to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Adelaide Booksellers [40692], Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Near Fine condition. Excellent condition 279 pages A hair-raising and hilarious account of Jokinen's adventure when he quites his government job in Canada to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, River in the Sky, VA, Front Royal, [RE:5].
Book may have significant crease or ding but will otherwise be in very good condition, with no highlighting or marking. Trade paperback.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Auriga Ltd [50068768], Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.
Book may have significant crease or ding but will otherwise be in very good condition, with no highlighting or marking.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Springwood Book Lounge [60738372], SPRINGWOOD, NSW, Australia.
Minor edge wear to cover. Books.