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Life , Death , Ritual and the Human Art of undertake
Rupert Callender
Hardcover
$ 28.00
Death is not my Quaker , neither is it my foe ; it is my destiny . “Part memoir , part rant against the traditional funeral line , part pronunciamento , part just mull over on demise and facing it with compassion and courage . It ’s lovely and serious-minded and may make you rethink a few things . ”—The Guardian“This Koran is a great workplace of craftiness and peach . ”—Salena Godden , generator ofMrs Death Misses DeathWhen he became an funeral undertaker , Rupert Callender set about to address with the dead for the sake of the support . What Remains?is the splendid , unforgettable story of the life and study of the world ’s first punk undertaker — but it is also a rule book about average , everyday world and our capacity to confront death with braveness and compassion . To say goodbye to the people we be intimate in our own fashion .
In becoming the world ’s first “ punk undertaker ” and launch the Green Funeral Company in Devon , UK , Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted , traditional , integrated world of the funeral industry ; flux what he had find out from his own deeply personal experiences with end , with the surprising and profound reply and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick .
From his dissonant heartbreak for his parents and his ethnical ascendent to political and religious non - conformists , social outlaws , experimental pioneers , and acid theater culture , Ru Callender has contain to an foreigner “ DIY ” ethos to help people navigate grief and destruction . He has carry casket across windswept beach , sat in pubs with coffin on beer - tarnish table , helped children fire flaming arrows into their father ’s funeral pyre , reverse modern occult ritual into carrying out art and , with the band member of KLF , is building the People ’s Pyramid of bony brick in Liverpool .
What Remains?is a unfathomed , profoundly moving , and politically point script that will deepen the way readers think about life , death , and the all - of import end - of – liveliness experience . “Rupert Callender hope[s ] to redefine the funeral . ”—The Telegraph“Death has shown me unimaginable repugnance , the unbreakable core of erotic love and braveness that lies at the heart of what it means to be human . ”—Rupert Callender , fromWhat Remains ?
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