Parting ways : new rituals and celebrations of life's passing /
This work explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed.
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Her choice: two paths leading to the same destination
- Living funeral: celebrating the end of life
- Her life review: reliving the past in the present
- Legacy of memories: telling life stories and last wishes
- Her season of lasts: traditional, seasonal, communal rituals
- Oral ethical will: video recording last words
- Her living wake: reminiscing and farewell party
- Vigil: holding hands at the 11th hour
- Her 21st century memorial service, his 20th century funeral
- Home funeral: eco-friendly way out
- Holistic approach: design-it-yourself funeral and cremation witnessing
- The living unveiling: technology innovates memorializing
- Her truth: finding life after death.
