TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweeney,Kate
TI  - American afterlife: encounters in the customs of mourning 
SN  - 9780820346892
AV  - GT3203 .A447 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - United States
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - Undertakers and undertaking
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; American ways of death --; Gone, but not forgotten --; Dismal trade: Sarah Peacock, memorial tattoo artist: under the skin --; The cemetery's cemetery --; Dismal trade: Kay Powell, obituary writer: the doyenne speaks --; The last great obit writers' conference --; Give me that old-time green burial --; Dismal trade: Oana Hogrefe, memorial photographer memory maker --; The house where death lives --; Dismal trade: Lenette Hall, owner, The urngarden: The business at the back of the closet --; With the fishes --; Dismal trade: Anne Gordon, funeral chaplain: funerals are fun --; Death by the roadside; 2; b
N2  - What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale--that of death in America. It's a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who find themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth-generation funeral director--even a midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that's by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny
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