Curtains Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
by Jokinen, TomFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-03-23
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary
Make sure it's the right one. This business, when you shake it down to first principles, is the burial or cremation of the dead, two relatively irreversible acts. Mistakes are frowned upon. Please check the ID tag carefully
Author Biography
Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has also worked as a railroad operator and an editorial cartoonist. Jokinen spent two years in medical school, where he dissected two human cadavers. He and his wife live in Ottawa.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| The Factory | p. 7 |
| A Way of Life Like Any Other | p. 19 |
| "All That Malarkey" | p. 27 |
| I'm Sorry for Your Loss, but You've Mistaken Me for Someone Who Knows What He's Doing | p. 35 |
| Love Your Hair, Who's Your Embalmer? | p. 49 |
| Funeral Family Values | p. 59 |
| To Keep Things the Way They Are, We Have to Change | p. 75 |
| Respect, Dignity and Black Underpants | p. 87 |
| Grief Sneaks Past | p. 103 |
| Two Hundred Cubic Inches of You | p. 119 |
| Turn That Frown Upside Down: The "Celebration of Life" | p. 139 |
| Contributing to Shareholder Values, One Corpse at a Time | p. 155 |
| "Shall We Gather at the River?" | p. 175 |
| The Storm | p. 193 |
| Death in Venice Beach | p. 209 |
| The Myth of Permanence | p. 239 |
| The Spookiest Trade Show in America | p. 249 |
| One Less Undertaker | p. 263 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 278 |
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