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All the ways our dead still speak : a funeral director on life, death, and the hereafter / Caleb Wilde.

Van Pelt Library BF575.G7 W539 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wilde, Caleb, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Death--Religious aspects.
Death.
Loss (Psychology).
Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
Bereavement.
Grief--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Grief.
Undertakers and undertaking--United States.
Undertakers and undertaking.
United States.
Genre:
Creative nonfiction.
Physical Description:
xvi, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2022]
Summary:
"All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes readers on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him--and us--what they experience in the thin places between life and death."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A dream of heaven
An unsolicited vision
Kept alive by a funeral
More than ourselves
Selves conscious
A small part of a bigger story
The beginning is listening
Bringing my ancestors with me
He came to me the other night
Dirty heaven
Ominous forecast
Conjure together, right now
Speaking to ghosts
Selves actualization.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1506471617
9781506471617
OCLC:
1260819908
Publisher Number:
99996580712

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