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Thinking Outside the Box
Tarcher
October 2006
On Sale: October 19, 2006
160 pages
ISBN: 1585425052
EAN: 9781585425051
Paperback
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Self-Help
A warmhearted,
witty, and beautifully illustrated guide to the most
important exit any
of us will ever make: how we choose to leave this life.
If you thought a dreary and expensive funeral arranged by
professional
morticians was your only option-think again! Michelle Cromer
offers a
plethora of creative alternatives to traditional funerals.
From having
one's remains shot into outer space or turned into a piece
of jewelry,
to being sifted into the roots of a tree, spread across the
sky in a
fireworks display, or scattered over Mount Rainier, the
options for how
we preserve our remains are limited only by our imagination.
Cromer attributes the growing demand for unconventional
end-of-life
ceremonies to several causes: the high cost and impersonal
nature of
traditional funerals; the geographic distance separating
most American
families that makes visits to the cemetery increasingly
difficult; and
the desire of baby boomers to apply their relentless pursuit of
personal expression to the art of dying.
Whatever the
reasons, the results are remarkable. Traveling around the
country,
Cromer meets families and entrepreneurs who are turning the
funeral
into an occasion for celebration and more intimate
remembrance. All
these innovative funerals, Cromer writes, "represent an
effort to make
the passage from life to death more personal and connected
with the
rest of our lives. And they remind us that physical death
and physical
decay are natural processes, without which there could be no
new life."
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