Confessions of a funeral director : how the business of death saved my life / Caleb Wilde.
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TextPublisher: San Francisco : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 193 pages : photograph ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062465245
- 0062465244
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 363.75 W671 | Available | 33111008964518 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Working in the deathcare industry requires a level of compassion and understanding that isn't for the faint hearted. Sixth-generation funeral director and award-winning author Caleb Wilde reflects, by combining humor and insight, on morality and the powerful lessons death holds in his memoir, Confessions of a Funeral Director.
We are 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 no longer be avoided--letting the professionals take over.
Caleb 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 here dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference--and at the same time saving his own.
Confessions of a Funeral Director will:
· Share how you can be a better human through grief
· Show you how brokenness can be the start to a new beginning
· Help you discover the 'spirituality of death'
Told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Caleb offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying. Caleb reminds us, "Death isn't just the dirty and the messy. We see death as a loss, and it is. But in death, we often find our most honest self, a stronger community, and some find that they are able to overcome the fear of death and live life to the fullest."
Caleb and his writing have been featured on national media outlets including ABC's 20/20, NBC, HuffPost, The Atlantic, NPR, and TIME.
Include discussion questions (pages 181-193).
Includes bibliographical references.
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.