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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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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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'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.

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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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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.