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It's a Matter of Life and Death: Growing Up in a Funeral Home and What I Learned Since

Lawrence J Danks

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Description:It's a Matter of Life and Death can help anyone who is:~ seeking happiness~ curious about life in a funeral home~ facing a serious illness or knows someone else who is grieving and working their way back toward recovery~ a health care provider, counselor, or practitioner in the funeral industry trying to help others cope with illness or loss~ seeking a varied discussion guide of what matters in life and what death can teach us~ looking to give a gift of life and what to value It all really all comes down to life and death. But how can a book that also talks about death and funerals have anything to do with happiness? There are many happiness books, but none that offers these perspectives. My sister and I had many life lessons growing up. I'm passing them on to help others live happier and fuller lives and to be better able to deal with death, grief and recovery too. The book's emphasis is on life and living a better one, not on death. It's inspirational and motivational and contains a great deal of practical information about funeral homes, funerals and life experiences. Table of Contents Part I: Seeking Happiness ~ Finding Happiness: It's not about hedonism and "smiley faces". It's about finding true gratification~ Death Teaches Us to Value Life Even More~ Take the Long View: Plan to live to be one hundred~ It's Never Too Late To Make a Difference in Your Life and in Those of Others~ Have a Purpose~ Get Better Sleep: It Can Make a Big Difference~ Advice from Courageous Survivors and Physicians For Those Facing a Terminal Illness~ Your Thinking Probably Needs Some Improvement~ "Mid-Life Crisis" is Not a Crisis~ The Need for a Love of Someone or Something Part II - Growing Up in a Funeral Home~ My Father's Routine~ My Sister, the Embalmer~ Jack - Our Most Valuable Player~ My Father, the Coroner~ Starting in Life and in the Funeral Business~ My Parent's Faith~ The Importance of Humility~ Who Decides Which Funeral Director?~ The Medical Examiner's Office and Autopsies~ Pre-Planning Funerals~ The Critical Importance of Having a Will~ Having a Living Will - An Advance Health Care Directive~ Do Funeral Directors Charge Too Much?~ Life in the Funeral Home~ The Condition of the Body~ Cosmetic and Presentation Skills~ Funeral Home "Humor" Part III - The Takeaway from Seven Decades~ Drug Abuse~ Giving the Ego a Rest~ Hospice Care - It Should Often Start Sooner~ Highly Memorable Funerals~ Finding What to Say at Viewings and Funerals~ Eulogies Can Be Excellent Teachers~ The Funeral Meal~ After Things Are Over, It Can Get Awfully Lonely~ Advice from a Grief Counselor on Handling Grief and Loss and Moving Ahead~ Thinking We Understand Death~ My Classmates' Deaths~ People Who Die Before Their Time~ Honoring Those Who Died, but Honoring Yourself Too~ Life after the Death of a Partner~ Improving Perspective after a Loss~ Recommended Self-Help Reading: Over thirty terrific resources to help you!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with It's a Matter of Life and Death: Growing Up in a Funeral Home and What I Learned Since. To get started finding It's a Matter of Life and Death: Growing Up in a Funeral Home and What I Learned Since, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 182

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: KDP

Release: 2018

ISBN: 172270344X

Description: It's a Matter of Life and Death can help anyone who is:~ seeking happiness~ curious about life in a funeral home~ facing a serious illness or knows someone else who is grieving and working their way back toward recovery~ a health care provider, counselor, or practitioner in the funeral industry trying to help others cope with illness or loss~ seeking a varied discussion guide of what matters in life and what death can teach us~ looking to give a gift of life and what to value It all really all comes down to life and death. But how can a book that also talks about death and funerals have anything to do with happiness? There are many happiness books, but none that offers these perspectives. My sister and I had many life lessons growing up. I'm passing them on to help others live happier and fuller lives and to be better able to deal with death, grief and recovery too. The book's emphasis is on life and living a better one, not on death. It's inspirational and motivational and contains a great deal of practical information about funeral homes, funerals and life experiences. Table of Contents Part I: Seeking Happiness ~ Finding Happiness: It's not about hedonism and "smiley faces". It's about finding true gratification~ Death Teaches Us to Value Life Even More~ Take the Long View: Plan to live to be one hundred~ It's Never Too Late To Make a Difference in Your Life and in Those of Others~ Have a Purpose~ Get Better Sleep: It Can Make a Big Difference~ Advice from Courageous Survivors and Physicians For Those Facing a Terminal Illness~ Your Thinking Probably Needs Some Improvement~ "Mid-Life Crisis" is Not a Crisis~ The Need for a Love of Someone or Something Part II - Growing Up in a Funeral Home~ My Father's Routine~ My Sister, the Embalmer~ Jack - Our Most Valuable Player~ My Father, the Coroner~ Starting in Life and in the Funeral Business~ My Parent's Faith~ The Importance of Humility~ Who Decides Which Funeral Director?~ The Medical Examiner's Office and Autopsies~ Pre-Planning Funerals~ The Critical Importance of Having a Will~ Having a Living Will - An Advance Health Care Directive~ Do Funeral Directors Charge Too Much?~ Life in the Funeral Home~ The Condition of the Body~ Cosmetic and Presentation Skills~ Funeral Home "Humor" Part III - The Takeaway from Seven Decades~ Drug Abuse~ Giving the Ego a Rest~ Hospice Care - It Should Often Start Sooner~ Highly Memorable Funerals~ Finding What to Say at Viewings and Funerals~ Eulogies Can Be Excellent Teachers~ The Funeral Meal~ After Things Are Over, It Can Get Awfully Lonely~ Advice from a Grief Counselor on Handling Grief and Loss and Moving Ahead~ Thinking We Understand Death~ My Classmates' Deaths~ People Who Die Before Their Time~ Honoring Those Who Died, but Honoring Yourself Too~ Life after the Death of a Partner~ Improving Perspective after a Loss~ Recommended Self-Help Reading: Over thirty terrific resources to help you!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with It's a Matter of Life and Death: Growing Up in a Funeral Home and What I Learned Since. To get started finding It's a Matter of Life and Death: Growing Up in a Funeral Home and What I Learned Since, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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