[PDF.98pq] American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

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 | #1763861 in Books |  2016-10-01 |  2016-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.33 x.60 x5.34l,.0 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Enlightening without morbidity|By Pam R McGahee|Kate has written a very informative book about how Americans have responded to death in the past, and how some of us deal with it in the present. Customs following death during the Victorian age, how they were adapted through the Industrial period, and on into our highly technological society of today are explored. The people wr| |From cooling boards to cremationists, obituarists to embalmers, Kate Sweeney’s American Afterlife holds a mirror up to human mortality and mortuary praxis and gives us a reading of the vital signs. Her book braces and emboldens our eschatological

Someone dies. What happens next?

One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she ...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning   |  Kate Sweeney.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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