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Index
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 - Death: Can't Live with It, Can't Live Without It
Chapter 1 - Is Death Necessary?
Chapter 2 - Death Across Cultures
Chapter 3 - Philippe Ariès and Western Attitudes Toward Death
Chapter 4 - Geoffrey Gorer and “The Pornography of Death”
Chapter 5 - The Good and Bad News About Immortality
Chapter 6 - America: Paradise Regained?
Chapter 7 - “The Wild Honeysuckle”
Chapter 8 - The Fellow in the Bright Nightgown
Chapter 9 - Death Fear
Chapter 10 - The Evil Dead
Chapter 11 - Death Anxiety Scale
Chapter 12 - Never Say Die
Chapter 13 - “Timor Mortis Conturbat Me”
Chapter 14 - I ♥ Death
Chapter 15 - Agony to Extinction: The Death Process
Chapter 16 - How Do You Know When You’re Dead?
Chapter 17 - Our Bodies, Our Deaths
Chapter 18 - Putrefaction: A Handy Guide
Chapter 19 - “Ghastly Gropings in the Decay of Graves”
Chapter 20 - What a Way to Go
Chapter 21 - A Grim Fairy Tale
Part 2 - Be Prepared
Chapter 22 - “The Good Death”: Achievable Goal or Contradiction in Terms?
Chapter 23 - Mortuary Hall of Fame: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Chapter 24 - Ars Moriendi
Chapter 25 - Death at the Dinner Table Talking About the Inevitable
Chapter 26 - Did Lincoln Dream of His Own Death?
Chapter 27 - Wills: Last and Living
Chapter 28 - “Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?”
Chapter 29 - Wacky Wills
Chapter 30 - Tending to the Terminally Ill
Chapter 31 - “Deathing”
Chapter 32 - Quality of Death: The Hospice Experience
Chapter 33 - Death Foretold
Chapter 34 - What to Do When Someone Dies
Chapter 35 - Death Certificates
Chapter 36 - “Not So Fast, Johnson”: The Dos and Don’ts of Death Notification
Chapter 37 - The Right to Die
Chapter 38 - Famous Last Words
Part 3 - Funeral Facts
Chapter 39 - Burial: It’s Only Human
Chapter 40 - Ritual Burials: So Easy Even a Caveman Could Do It
Chapter 41 - The Wacky World of Funeral Customs
Chapter 42 - God Is in the Details: Religion and Burial
Chapter 43 - A Brief History of the American Funeral Industry: Making a Big Production of Death
Chapter 44 - Funeral Favors
Chapter 45 - It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Got to Do It
Chapter 46 - From Furniture Maker to Undertaker
Chapter 47 - NFDA
Chapter 48 - The Funeral Home Experience
Chapter 49 - Funeralspeak
Chapter 50 - Mortuary Hall of Fame: Howard Raether
Chapter 51 - Step into My Parlor
Chapter 52 - Pre-need: Pro or Con?
Chapter 53 - GPL
Chapter 54 - SCI: The 800-Pound Funeral Gorilla
Chapter 55 - Coffins and Caskets: What’s the Difference?
Chapter 56 - Coffins for the Big-Boned
Chapter 57 - Unsung Heroes of the Death Industry: Almond Fisk
Chapter 58 - DIY Coffins
Chapter 59 - Rent-a-Casket
Chapter 60 - Kool Koffins
Chapter 61 - A Brief History of Embalming
Chapter 62 - Thomas Holmes
Chapter 63 - Equal-Opportunity Embalming
Chapter 64 - Unsung Heroes of the Death Industry
Chapter 65 - Embalming: Don’t Try This at Home
Chapter 66 - How to Beat the High Cost of Embalming (Hint: Skip It)
Chapter 67 - American Hearses: Going in Style
Chapter 68 - Hearses for the Harley Crowd
Chapter 69 - Hearse Clubs: For Connoisseurs of Fine Vintage Funeral Coaches
Chapter 70 - Funerals: The Consumers Last Rights
Chapter 71 - FCA, USA
Chapter 72 - Scams and What to Do About Them
Chapter 73 - Funerals for the YouTube Age
Chapter 74 - Bereavement Fares
Chapter 75 - A Meal to Die For
Chapter 76 - Eat, Drink, and Be Buried
Chapter 77 - Eulogies
Chapter 78 - Wake Me When Its Over
Chapter 79 - Oh, and Never Ever Wear New Shoes to a Funeral
Chapter 80 - Hand of Glory
Chapter 81 - Living Funerals
Chapter 82 - The Dead Beat
Chapter 83 - Greetings from the Grave
Chapter 84 - Obit for an Obituarist
Part 4 - Grave Matters
Chapter 85 - From Mass Grave to Memorial Park: The Rise of the Modern Cemetery
Chapter 86 - Take Me Out to the Graveyard
Chapter 87 - Ten Cemeteries to See Before You Die
Chapter 88 - Legends of Père-Lachaise
Chapter 89 - The Only Travel Book You’ll Ever Need (Assuming You Spend All Your Vacation Time Visiting Cemeteries)
Chapter 90 - Cemetery Shopping Tips
Chapter 91 - The Ultimate Cemetery Locator
Chapter 92 - Gravedigging: A Dying Art
Chapter 93 - Written in Stone
Chapter 94 - Stone Love
Chapter 95 - Finally! A Magazine Addressed to the Needs of Taphophiles
Chapter 96 - The Tombstone of Tomorrow—Today
Chapter 97 - Buried Alive
Chapter 98 - The Lebenswecker: If This Doesn’t Wake You Up, Nothing Will
Chapter 99 - “One Summer Night”
Chapter 100 - The Undead: Fact or Fiction?
Chapter 101 - Pet Cemeteries
Chapter 102 - Gladstone, Michigan: Pet Casket Capital of the World
Chapter 103 - In Memoriam: Fluffy
Chapter 104 - Corpse-Napping: Ransoming the Dead
Chapter 105 - Burke and Hare: Making a Killing from Corpses
Chapter 106 - Digging Up the Goods
Chapter 107 - Necrophilia
Chapter 108 - “The Unquiet Grave”
Part 5 - Cremation, Cryonics, and other Postmortem Possibilities
Chapter 109 - To Burn or Not to Burn?
Chapter 110 - Cremation: Then and Now
Chapter 111 - CANA
Chapter 112 - Ashes to Art
Chapter 113 - The Perfect Final Resting Place for Snack Lovers
Chapter 114 - Fly Me to the Moon
Chapter 115 - Sleeping with the Fishes
Chapter 116 - Ashes Aweigh
Chapter 117 - The Eternal Alumni Club
Chapter 118 - Hair Today, Memorial Gemstone Tomorrow
Chapter 119 - Keith, Coke, and Funerary Cannibalism
Chapter 120 - Cryonic Preservation: Cooling Your Heels (Along with the Rest of Your Anatomy) for a Few Millennia
Chapter 121 - Ted Williams: Dead Head
Chapter 122 - Green Burials
Chapter 123 - Ecopods: Designer Coffins for the Save-the-Earth Crowd
Chapter 124 - How to Make a Mummy
Chapter 125 - You, Too, Can Be a Mummy (and So Can Fido)
Chapter 126 - 100 Percent All-Natural Mummies
Part 6 - Loss and Hope
Chapter 127 - The Hour of Lead
Chapter 128 - Grief and Mourning
Chapter 129 - Dr. Lindemann and the Inferno
Chapter 130 - Condolence Letters
Chapter 131 - Grief Dreams
Chapter 132 - The Victorians: Fetishists of Death
Chapter 133 - Widow’s Wear
Chapter 134 - Hairwork Jewelry
Chapter 135 - Hold That Pose
Chapter 136 - Victorian Postmortem Photography: A How-to Guide
Chapter 137 - Widow Sacrifice
Chapter 138 - When Grief Is a Relief
Chapter 139 - Grief Goodies
Chapter 140 - Where Do the Gone Things Go? Children and Death
Chapter 141 - “In Childhood”
Chapter 142 - Kids and Pet Loss
Chapter 143 - Death Comes to Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood
Chapter 144 - APLB
Chapter 145 - The Undiscovered Country Where Do We Go from Here?
Chapter 146 - “The Indian Burying Ground”
Chapter 147 - Heaven as Home
Chapter 148 - The Corpse Brides
Chapter 149 - The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Chapter 150 - The Near-Death Scenario
Part 7 - Death Can Be Fun!
Chapter 151 - Death in the Movies
Chapter 152 - Death Lit 101
Chapter 153 - Death’s Poet Laureate
Chapter 154 - Death’s Playlist
Chapter 155 - A Death Song That Could Make Even John Wayne Cry
Chapter 156 - Lullabies Ditties of Death
Chapter 157 - Six Feet Under Must-See TV for Morticians
Chapter 158 - Magazines You Are Unlikely to Find in Your Doctor’s Waiting Room
Chapter 159 - Sick Jokes
Chapter 160 - “The Hearse Song”
Chapter 161 - Memento Mori
Chapter 162 - Memento Mori Calendars
Chapter 163 - Days of the Dead
Chapter 164 - Strange but True
Chapter 165 - Death: King of Terrors or Really Fun Hobby?
Chapter 166 - Bluelips: Your One-Stop Online Shopping Site for Those Hard-to-Find Mortuary Novelty Items
Chapter 167 - Build-a-Corpse: Fun for the Whole Family!
Chapter 168 - Mortuary Museums
Chapter 169 - Death Ed
Chapter 170 - And Following Our Midafternoon Séance, There’ll Be Lanyard Braiding at the Arts and Crafts Center
Chapter 171 - Cemetery Fun
Chapter 172 - Love and Death
Chapter 173 - The Bride Wore Black
Chapter 174 - The Last Word
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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