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Tom Jokinen began to seriously question the secular funeral rites that are taking over the industry. The question had such a hard grip on his Finnish soul that he decided to become an apprentice undertaker. This book is about what he found, from the mundane to the macabre. For anyone who's secretly wondered why they paid $2000 for a 5-lb bag of dust--or questioned whether that dust was really the person they loved--Curtains lifts the veil on the funeral industry in the 21st century.--From publisher description.
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Undertakers and undertaking, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Biography, Anecdotes, Canada, biography, Pompes funèbres, Funérailles, Rites et cérémonies, BiographiesPeople
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Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
2011, Random House of Canada
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Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training
2010, Hachette Books
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0306818965 9780306818967
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Curtains: adventures of an undertaker-in-training
2010, Random House Canada
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Curtains: adventures of an undertaker-in-training
2010, Da Capo Pr.
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0306818914 9780306818912
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Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
2010, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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1458759008 9781458759009
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Table of Contents
The factory
A way of life like any other
"All that malarkey"
I'm sorry for your loss, but you've mistaken me for someone who knows what he's doing
Love your hair, who's your embalmer?
Funeral family values
To keep things the way they are, we have to change
Respect, dignity and black underpants
Grief sneaks past
Two hundred cubic inches of you
Turn that frown upside down: the "celebration of life"
Contributing to shareholder values, one corpse at a time
"Shall we gather at the river"
The storm
Death in Venice Beach
The myth of permanence
The spookiest trade show in America
One less undertaker.
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