Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.

First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle's "Funeral Customs" is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary traditions and customs throughout history and from all over the world. From lost ancient practices to the first graveyards and cemeteries, this volume sheds light on how we as humans have dealt with death and the dead over the ages. Contents include: "The Provisions Of Nature", "Death Warnings-When Does Death Take Place?", "Preparation...

Discusses the Egyptian preservation of dead bodies, stories associated with mummies, and mummies from different cultures, including Incan and Sicilian.

Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because, as Murray discovers, death is, for many, not an ending but the start of something new. Author and journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen to her remains-that was, until her father died. While he'd always insisted that the "organic matter" left after a person takes their last breath had no significance,...

A practical guide to managing the difficult legal aspects surrounding the death of a loved one offers succinct advice and checklists for a range of practical topics, from funeral arrangements and social security to accounts and taxes. Original.

Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their magic treehouse back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.

This book explores lessons learned about life, death, love and loss. It is a practical guide to rethinking death. It discusses life and living, as much as death and dying. It's a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It's as simple and as complicated as that.

While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning movement that uses burial to conserve and restore natural areas, forgoing typical funeral practices that stress the ecosystem. Boldly facing his mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have become passionate about green burial, compelled by both the environmental benefits and the idea that one can remain within the cycle of life, rather than being cut off from it.