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Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.75
EAN: 9781930722620
ISBN: 1930722621
Label: New World Library
Manufacturer: New World Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
Publisher: New World Library
Studio: New World Library
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Editorial Review:
After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother/undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life’s ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equal doses of charm, humanity, humor, and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary, the book features memorable stories of regret — “I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident” — and renewal, as the lesson of facing life’s last great event is learned, or not. Some of the accounts here are funny, some sad. Some are haunting in their strangeness as they reveal the many ways in which people cope. Along the way, the reader is drawn into Nadle’s own life story as an unconventional woman who devoted herself to the dead and to those they left behind.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Engaging Read on an Engaging Topic
I really enjoyed reading this quick read biographical book as I am currently working on my own book (fiction) about the life of a woman who is a funeral director. The author shows her intelligence, sensitivity and humor in the stories she relates about her career as a mortician.
Rating: - Thought provoking
June has a wonderful way of presenting the intriguing stories then briefly discussing the significance of the experience. Through her stories she discusses teaching children about death, forgiving the dead, forgiving yourself after a loved one has died, stages of grief, and looking at death realisticly rather than with fear. Some stories are comical, some are heart-wrenching, and others are eye-opening. My husband and I read this book together and really enjoyed it! Thanks June!
Rating: - Thank you June Nadle
Excellently written book. Written with love, compassion, and a deep understanding of love, life, and death. A must read for anyone and everyone!
Rating: - A Fascinating, Compassionate Look at Death from an 80-year-old Industry Insider
You might not expect a memoir by an eighty-year-old woman to deal with topics such as gang warfare, AIDS, racism, unplanned pregnancies, and feminism, but this one does. You also might not expect a book called Mortician Diaries to be anything but morbid, but Nadle possesses the gift of bringing her over 50-year-long career as a mortician and her lust for life to the page. She's the kind of woman who visits cemeteries when she travels, to see how different cultures treat the dead. She uses phrases ... Read More
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