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It's not necessarily a glamorous or high-profile career. And those who choose to pursue it have often been stereotyped as saints or schemers, but a career as a funeral director can be both rewarding and challenging. Part counselor, part business person and part technician, the funeral director's career allows those who enter it opportunities to exercise business expertise, and technical and interpersonal skills, and can provide an ever-changing work environment. While few get rich as funeral directors, it certainly can provide steady and comfortable earnings. Although many associate the task o
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Undertakers and undertaking. --- Jebel Moya, Egyptian Sudan.
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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 greenburial 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 might tend the roadside memorial she erected at the spot her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter's hair; the other, a nec
Undertakers and undertaking --- Mourning customs --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- United States --- Social life and customs.
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For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long - and often violent - struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.
Funeral rites and ceremonies --- African Americans --- African Americans --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Funeral customs and rites. --- Social life and customs. --- United States --- Social life and customs.
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'The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century' examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organisational change and attempts to gain recognition as a professional service provider saw the role morph into that of 'funeral director'. As the disposal of the dead increased in complexity during the twentieth century, the role of the undertaker/funeral director has mirrored this change. Whilst the undertaker of 1900 primarily encoffined and transported the body, today's funeral director provides other services, such as taking responsibility for the body of the deceased and embalming, and has overseen changes such as the increasing preference for cremation, the impact of technology on the production of coffins and the shift to motorised transport. These factors, together with the problem of succession for some family-run funeral businesses, have led large organisations to make acquisitions and manage funerals on a centralised basis, achieving economies of scale. This book examines how the occupation has sought to reposition itself and how the 'funeral director' has become an essential functionary in funerary practices. However, despite striving for new-found status the role is hindered by two key issues: the stigma of handling the dead, and the perception of making a profit from loss.
Undertakers and undertaking --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes --- History --- Death --- Social Science, Death & Dying. --- Funeral services. --- Social services --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy
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"Petebaste son of Peteamunip, the choachyte, or water-pourer, lived during the first half of the seventh century BCE in the reigns of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Kushite kings Shabaka and Taharqa and was responsible for the comfortable and carefree afterlife of his deceased clients by bringing their weekly libations. But Petebaste was also responsible for a wide range of other activities--he provided a tomb to the family of the deceased, managed the costs of the personnel and commodities, and took care of all necessary paperwork, while also tending to the gruesome preparation of the mortal remains of the deceased. Drawing on an archive of eight abnormal hieratic papyri in the Louvre that deal specifically with the affairs of a single family, Donker van Heel takes a deep dive into the business dealings of this Theban mortuary priest. In intimate detail, he illuminates the final stage of the embalming and coffining process of a woman called Taperet ('Mrs. Seedcorn') on the night before she would be taken from the embalming workshop to her final resting place, providing fascinating insight into the practical day-to-day aspects of funerary practices in ancient Egypt"--
Undertakers and undertaking --- Death care industry --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Family archives --- Egyptian language --- Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) --- Egypt --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Civilization --- Antiquities.
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Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral parlours, crematoria and cemeteries, as well as holding poignant, in-depth interviews with bereaved women, Bradbury has been able to illuminate the very different perspectives of the deathwork professional and the grieving relative. Illustrated with stunning photographs, this fascinating book makes a significant contribution to the growi
Death. --- Undertakers and undertaking. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Bereavement. --- Loss of loved ones by death --- Consolation --- Death --- Loss (Psychology) --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Bereavement --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Undertakers and undertaking --- dood --- lichaam --- sociologie (sociologische aspecten) --- mort --- corps --- sociologie (aspects sociologiques)
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The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections among urban politics, gender expectations, and understandings of emotionality. In Passion and Order, Carol Lansing explores a dramatic change in thinking and practice about emotional restraint. This shift was driven by politics and understood in terms of gender. Thirteenth-century court cases reveal that male elites were accustomed to mourning loudly and demonstratively at funerals. As many as a hundred men might gather in a town's streets and squares to weep and cry out, even tear at their beards and clothing. Yet these elites enacted laws against such emotional display and proceeded to pay the fines levied against themselves for violating their own legislation.Political theorists used gender norms to urge men to restrain their passions; histrionic grieving, like lust, was now considered "womanish." Lawmakers drew on a complex of gendered ideas about grief and public order to characterize governance in ways that linked the self and the state. They articulated their beliefs in terms of rules of decorum, how men and women need to behave in order to live together in society. Lansing demonstrates this change through a rich combination of sources: archival records from Orvieto, Bologna, and Perugia; political treatises; literary works, notably Petrarch's letters; and representations of grief in painting and sculpture.
Burial laws --- Emotions --- Grief --- Mourning customs --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Burial --- Mortuary law --- Dead bodies (Law) --- Cemeteries --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Mourning --- Sorrow --- Bereavement --- Loss (Psychology) --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- History --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Italy --- Social life and customs
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Play is not only a kind of activity, but also a set of attitudes. We may join a card game in a casino without assuming a play attitude; conversely we may transform a seemingly tedious action, such as a walk to the store, into a pleasant experience of spontaneous movements by adopting an attitude of play. Attitudes of Play is a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring a cheerful and good-humoured outlook to any kind of situation, including the serious and the mundane. Gabor Csepregi offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, showing how, time and again, our attitudes of play redefine and shape diverse activities and experiences – from teaching, healing, or worshipping to political conflict or walking down the street. With play attitudes, we exercise our freedom to colour these scenes or give them an altogether new form, evoking in us more refined sentiments and more acute perceptions.This book seeks to distinguish play activities from attitudes of play, showing that the latter hold value not merely for their educational or other instrumental benefits but also, and perhaps most importantly, for the overall fulfillment and well-being they offer in all stages of human existence.
Attitude (Psychology). --- Play. --- Phenomenological. --- activity. --- amateur. --- analysis. --- arts. --- body. --- cheerfulness. --- curiosity. --- detachment. --- drinking wine. --- education. --- events. --- freedom. --- fresh experience. --- fulfilment. --- fun. --- happiness. --- imagination. --- joy. --- leadership. --- life. --- living. --- love. --- mood. --- new experience. --- normal course. --- present. --- sense. --- sexuality. --- sports. --- stepping out. --- strolling. --- things. --- togetherness. --- undertaking. --- utility. --- way. --- wonder.
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This volume chronicles not only a human corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. The author argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights-both legal and moral. One of a corpse's purported rights is to have its predecessor's disposal choices upheld. This work reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse's role in medical education, scientific research, or tissue transplantation. The author outlines the limits that post-mortem "human dignity" poses upon disposal options, particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound.
Sacrilege. --- Offenses against the person. --- Burial laws. --- Dead --- Human body --- Dead bodies (Law) --- Church desecration --- Desecration --- Offenses against religion --- Host desecration accusation --- Taboo --- Abuse of persons --- Crimes against persons --- Crimes against the person --- Offenses against persons --- Crime --- Persons --- Burial --- Mortuary law --- Cemeteries --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Dead bodies (Law).
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