LEADER 03137nam 2200613 450 001 9910789028503321 005 20230126211843.0 010 $a0-8203-4689-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000087919 035 $a(EBL)1630845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001111310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11602484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001111310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11129869 035 $a(PQKB)10805957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1630845 035 $a(OCoLC)870646726 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1630845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10837670 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL573861 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000087919 100 $a20140224h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican afterlife $eencounters in the customs of mourning /$fKate Sweeney 210 1$aAthens, Georgia :$cThe University of Georgia Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-4600-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCOVER; 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 Fishes 327 $aDISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aSomeone 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 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zUnited States 606 $aMourning customs$zUnited States 606 $aUndertakers and undertaking$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies 615 0$aMourning customs 615 0$aUndertakers and undertaking 676 $a393 700 $aSweeney$b Kate$f1978-$01533951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789028503321 996 $aAmerican afterlife$93781101 997 $aUNINA