Full name: Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training

Author: Tom Jokinen Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306818912 0306818914

At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff.If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you'd have Curtains. Similar books: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Down Among the Dead Men by Michelle Williams Good Mourning by Elizabeth Meyer The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields Chasing Daylight by Eugene O'Kelly From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty Remember Me by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford Two Weeks of Life by Eleanor Clift Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius Not Quite What I Was Planning by Rachel Fershleiser Wildflower by Drew Barrymore Final Exam by Pauline W. Chen On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover