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A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with all the panache, honesty and sensitivity of Rosie Waterland's The Anti-Cool Girl and Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner. Emma Jane Holmes had her dream job, working in the funeral industry, caring for those who could no longer care for themselves. But when the bills mounted after her marriage breakdown, she turned to her other dream - dancing on stage as a showgirl - and her glittering alter ego Madison was born. Emma Jane kept Madison a secret. Madison kept Emma Jane an even bigger one.But what happens when death touches the neon world of the strip club? And sex - in the form of a cute co-worker - encroaches on the funeral home? Could the answer be life, lived in the day, because that's the only day you have?Emma Jane Holmes' debut will take you into the mortuary, cemetery and crematorium - and behind the scenes in night clubs - and answer all the questions you never wanted to ask ... PRAISE'A beautiful insight into two industries we're all curious about, full of warmth and wit' - Carly Findlay OAM, author of Say Hello'Meet Australia's most outrageous mortician ... her stories are deadly' - news.com.au'Emma Jane Holmes shines a beautiful light on love, death and connection' - Samantha X, author of Hooked'We're all going to die sometime ... Emma Jane Holmes brings so much light to the subject' - Andy Dowling, Andy Social podcast

REGARDING OUR APPROACH TO THE END OF LIFE Death is a universal human experience. The knowledge of our own mortality connects us - beyond all boundaries of space, time and social conventions. Even while we're still alive, the great unknown presents us with a multitude of questions, affecting us in different ways: Is there life after death? What is a 'good death'? How do we find comfort? What remains of me? This book discusses possible answers from an individual point of view as well as from a cultural and social perspective. It forges a bridge between the nature of our fleeting existence and a culture of death that can be shaped, between the certainty of our own passing and the awareness of the impending loss of all our livelihood through the extinction of species.-Reflecting on the great unknown: What does death mean today?-Conceptions of the afterlife, funerary rites, and commemoration of the dead all around the world-Experts from the fields of journalism, philosophy, medicine, forensics, art, ecology, archaeology, psychotherapy, palliative care, zoology, and sociology illuminate the topic in all its facets-On dignity, mourning, and living with the dead-Essays, interviews, personal accounts, and photo spreadsAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE MANY DIFFERENT NOTIONS OF DEATHIn a wide-ranging compilation of essays, interviews and personal accounts, "in_finite. Living with Death" offers a multi-layered look at beliefs about the afterlife, funerary rites, the treatment of the dying, and coping with grief. Here, the perspective extends far beyond the European cultural sphere. Alongside experts from various fields of science, representatives of religious communities such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and the Yoruba religions, also share their views and provide nuanced accounts of diverse, including non-Western, perspectives on the end of life. This book offers an approach that contributes to a holistic understanding of death and makes it possible to ask questions that remain hidden in everyday life.ABOUT THE FINAL CHAPTER OF OUR BEINGFor all the broadness of its thematic scope, the book is clearly structured around key topics. The individual contributions range from reflections on immortality by the philosopher and journalist Stephen Cave to factual descriptions of the process of dying by Dr Jens Dreier of the Berlin Charité hospital and touching reports from the everyday lives of end-of-life caregivers from all over the world.The publication accompanying the exhibition "un_endlich. Leben mit dem Tod" is published by the Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berliner Schloss. With contributions by Stephen Cave, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Matthias Glaubrecht, Cristina Cattaneo, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Jens Dreier, and others.

Endlich ist er wieder da! Der Best-of-Band "In Memoriam", das große Buch der Trauerfloristik und das ideale Inspirations- und Ideenwerk zur Unterstützung des Beratungsgesprächs im Trauerfall.Wie der beliebte und zahlreich nachgefragte Vorgänger und Bestseller zu trauerfloristischen Arbeiten beschreibt die Neuerscheinung wieder alle trauerfloristischen Kategorien: vom Urnen- und Sargschmuck über Trauergestecke und-sträuße bis zu Kränzen in allen Dimensionen, Stilrichtungen und Ausführungen. Das Werk konzentriert sich auf 256 Seiten auf die bildliche Wiedergabe der neuesten Kreationen vom Team BLOOM's und fasst diese aus den letzten fünf Jahren zusammen. Das Inspirations- und Beratungsbuch gehört in jedes Blumenfachgeschäft und jede Friedhofsgärtnerei, dietrauerfloristische Leistungen anbieten! Ein Buch, das man ständig zur Hand nimmt, um wieder neue und inspirierendeAnregungen und Impulse für das tägliche Geschäft mit Trauerfloristik zu bekommen!

Now available in paperback! In this first reference book devoted entirely to mortuary science, Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects, including even the most specialized area in the field. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints. Areas covered include autopsy, cremation, burial rites and ceremonies, caskets and vaults, cemeteries, embalming, epitaphs, ethnic customs, funeral dress and apparel, funeral music, funeral reform, grave markers, laws and regulations, liturgies and sermons, memorial societies, organ and body donation, premature burial, pre-need service, restorative art, and several others. The text is organized by subject, with author and title indexes. Five appendixes feature addresses for associations and organizations, information on schools of mortuary science, accreditation procedures and standards of the American Board of Funeral Service Education, periodicals in the field, and a list of state funeral service examining boards. Will be useful to students, librarians, and researchers as well as funeral service personnel.