Sweet Sorrow : a Beginner's Guide To Death.

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Author / Creator:	Mark, Wakely.
Imprint:	Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Death. Death in literature. Death in popular culture. Death care industry. Death. Death care industry. Death in literature. Death in popular culture. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954886

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Other authors / contributors:	Wakely, Mark.
ISBN:	0522858953 9780522858952
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mark, Wakely. Sweet Sorrow : A Beginner's Guide To Death. Carlton : Melbourne University Press, ©2008 9780522855135

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