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Loading... Sweet Sorrow: A Beginner's Guide to Death (edition 2010)by Mark Wakely (Author)
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This remarkable book-at times heart-breaking, at times humorous-is dazzling for its profound honesty. Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents' deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality. With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsical investigation into this timeless subject. All you need to pack for the trip is a curiosity about life. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.9Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions DeathLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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I cannot understand why publishers publish these type of book.
I will not place this on my 'read' list as half a CD does not qualify as read! ( )