Curtains Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training

by Jokinen, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780306818912
• ISBN10: 0306818914
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-23
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Make sure it's the right one. This business, when you shake it down to first principles, is the burial or cremation of the dead, two relatively irreversible acts. Mistakes are frowned upon. Please check the ID tag carefully

Author Biography

Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has also worked as a railroad operator and an editorial cartoonist. Jokinen spent two years in medical school, where he dissected two human cadavers. He and his wife live in Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
The Factory	p. 7
A Way of Life Like Any Other	p. 19
"All That Malarkey"	p. 27
I'm Sorry for Your Loss, but You've Mistaken Me for Someone Who Knows What He's Doing	p. 35
Love Your Hair, Who's Your Embalmer?	p. 49
Funeral Family Values	p. 59
To Keep Things the Way They Are, We Have to Change	p. 75
Respect, Dignity and Black Underpants	p. 87
Grief Sneaks Past	p. 103
Two Hundred Cubic Inches of You	p. 119
Turn That Frown Upside Down: The "Celebration of Life"	p. 139
Contributing to Shareholder Values, One Corpse at a Time	p. 155
"Shall We Gather at the River?"	p. 175
The Storm	p. 193
Death in Venice Beach	p. 209
The Myth of Permanence	p. 239
The Spookiest Trade Show in America	p. 249
One Less Undertaker	p. 263
Acknowledgements	p. 278
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