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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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