03170nam 2200625 450 991046493850332120200520144314.00-8203-4689-6(CKB)3710000000087919(EBL)1630845(SSID)ssj0001111310(PQKBManifestationID)11602484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001111310(PQKBWorkID)11129869(PQKB)10805957(MiAaPQ)EBC1630845(OCoLC)870646726(MdBmJHUP)muse34831(Au-PeEL)EBL1630845(CaPaEBR)ebr10837670(CaONFJC)MIL573861(EXLCZ)99371000000008791920140224h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican afterlife encounters in the customs of mourning /Kate SweeneyAthens, Georgia :The University of Georgia Press,2014.©20141 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-4600-4 Includes bibliographical references.COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the FishesDISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHYSomeone 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 necFuneral rites and ceremoniesUnited StatesMourning customsUnited StatesUndertakers and undertakingUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial life and customsElectronic books.Funeral rites and ceremoniesMourning customsUndertakers and undertaking393Sweeney Kate1978-857047MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464938503321American afterlife1913848UNINA