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The whole death catalog: a lively guide to the bitter end
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Introduction -- 1. Death : can't live with it, can't live without it -- Is death necessary? -- Death across cultures -- Philippe Ariès and Western attitudes toward death -- Geoffrey Gorer and "The pornography of death" -- The good and bad news about immortality -- America : paradise regained? -- "The wild honeysuckle" -- The fellow in the bright nightgown -- Death fear -- The evil dead -- Death anxiety scale -- Never say die -- "Timor mortis conturbat me" -- I [love] death -- Agony to extinction : the death process -- How do you know when you're dead? -- Our bodies, our deaths -- Putrefaction : a handy guide -- "Ghastly gropings in the decay of graves" -- What a way to go -- A Grim fairy tale -- 2. Be prepared -- "The good death" : achievable goal or contradiction in terms? -- Mortuary hall of fame : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -- Ars moriendi -- Death at the dinner table : talking about the inevitable -- Did Lincoln dream of his own death? -- Wills : last and living -- "Who gets grandma's yellow pie plate?" -- Wacky wills -- Tending to the terminally ill -- "Deathing" -- Quality of death : the hospice experience -- Death foretold -- What to do when someone dies -- Death certificates -- "Not so fast, Johnson" : the dos and don'ts of death notification -- The right to die -- Famous last words --
3. Funeral facts -- Burial : it's only human -- Ritual burials : so easy even a caveman could do it -- The wacky world of funeral customs -- God is in the details : religion and burial -- A brief history of the American funeral industry : making a big production of death -- Funeral favors -- It's a tough job but someone's got to do it -- From furniture maker to undertaker -- NFDA -- The funeral home experience -- Funeralspeak -- Mortuary hall of fame : Howard Raether -- Step into my parlor -- Pre-need : pro or con? -- GPL -- SCI : the 800-pound funeral gorilla -- Coffins and caskets : what's the difference? -- Coffins for the big-boned -- Unsung heroes of the death industry : Almond Fisk -- DIY coffins -- Rent-a-casket -- Kool koffins -- A brief history of embalming -- Thomas Holmes -- Equal-opportunity embalming -- Unsung heroes of the death industry : Roy F. McCampbell -- Embalming : don't try this at home -- How to beat the high cost of embalming (hint : skip it) -- American hearses : going in style -- Hearses for the Harley crowd -- Hearse clubs : for connoisseurs of fine vintage funeral coaches -- Funerals : the consumer's last rights -- FCA, USA -- Scams and what to do about them -- Funerals for the YouTube age -- Bereavement fares -- A meal to die for -- Eat, drink, and be buried -- Eulogies -- Wake me when it's over -- Oh, and never ever wear new shoes to a funeral -- Hand of glory -- Living funerals -- The dead beat -- Greetings from the grave -- Obit for an obituarist --
4. Grave matters -- From mass grave to memorial park : the rise of the modern cemetery -- Take me out to the graveyard -- Ten cemeteries to see before you die -- Legends of Père Lachaise -- The only travel book you'll ever need (assuming you spend all your vacation time visiting cemeteries) -- Cemetery shopping tips -- The ultimate cemetery locator -- Gravedigging : a dying art -- Written in stone -- Stone love -- Finally! A magazine addressed to the needs of taphophiles -- The tombstone of tomorrow--today -- Buried alive -- The Lebenswecker : if this doesn't wake you up, nothing will -- "One summer night" -- The undead : fact or fiction? -- Pet cemeteries -- Gladstone, Michigan : pet casket capital of the world -- In memoriam : Fluffy -- Corpse-napping : ransoming the dead -- Burke and Hare : making a killing from corpses -- Digging up the goods -- Necrophilia -- "The unquiet grave" -- 5. Cremation, cryonics, and other postmortem possibilities -- To burn or not to burn? -- Cremation : then and now -- CANA -- Ashes to art -- The perfect final resting place for snack lovers -- Fly me to the moon -- Sleeping with the fishes -- Ashes aweigh -- The eternal alumni club -- Hair today, memorial gemstone tomorrow -- Keith, Coke, and funerary cannibalism -- Cryonic preservation : cooling your heels (along with the rest of your anatomy) for a few millennia -- Ted Williams : dead head -- Green burials -- Ecopods : designer coffins for the save-the-earth crowd -- How to make a mummy -- You, too, can be a mummy (and so can Fido) -- 100 percent all-natural mummies --
6. Loss and hope
The hour of lead
Grief and mourning
Dr. Lindemann and the inferno
Condolence letters
Grief dreams
The Victorians : fetishists of death
Widow's wear
Hairwork jewelry
Hold that pose
Victorian postmortem photography : a how-to guide
Widow sacrifice
When grief is a relief
Grief goodies
Where do the gone things go? Children and death
"In childhood"
Kids and pet loss
Death comes to Mr. Rogers's neighborhood
APLB
The undiscovered country : where do we go from here?
"The Indian burying ground"
Heaven as home
The corpse brides
The light at the end of the tunnel
The near-death scenario
7. Death can be fun!
Death in the movies
Death Lit 101
Deaths poet laureate
Death's playlist
A death song that could make even John Wayne cry
Lullabies : ditties of death
Six feet under : must-see TV for morticians
Magazines you are unlikely to find in your doctor's waiting room
Sick jokes
"The hearse song"
Memento mori
Memento mori calendars
Days of the Dead
Strange but true
Death : king of terrors or really fun hobby?
Bluelips : your one-stop online shopping site for those hard-to-find mortuary novelty items
Build-a-corpse : fun for the whole family!
Mortuary museums
Death Ed
And following our midafternoon séance, there'll be lanyard braiding at the arts and crafts center
Cemetery fun
Love and death
The bride wore black
The last word
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