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Save your $19.00 and invest in a credible book. Please don't bother. Death To Dust What Happens To Dead Bodies. This "book" is akin to a poorly written high school term paper. The author gives no credentials and has strange views (Phlegmatic people live longer than active ones because they don't use up as much energy). by Kenneth V. Iserson, MD, is a well written informational book that delivers not only a good value, but an enjoyable, and informational reference.
If the extraneous stuff was removed and the type-face was at a normal size, this would be a 30 page pamphlet. Not worth the money. It is 106 pages, large type-face, with lots of pages taken up with chapter titles, sayings, quotes. It reads like someone took most things from other people's term papers. Very superficial.
But there is little that is secret about the emblaming and dressing process here. I wish this book had been available then, since there were, and still are so many questions. I had worked for a funeral home at one time, many years ago. The author covers just about every REASONABLE question one could have about the business. More often than not, it's the family of the departed who want to know what really happpens and this book would have eased a lot of the tension. Morticians seem to have a mysterious aire about them, almost as if their work is a deep, dark secret. Anything further could be obtained through books devoted to the actual emblaming process. You might think this is a macabre little book, but undertakers have a difficult task, to make the deceased look as good as possible.
I got the book, and read it all the way through in one evening. In one of the beginning Chapters I felt left hanging when the discussion between the man in the book and his sister regarding what they had experienced at the particular time when they realized they knew something about life while still alive, that only the dying or the dead know. I thought the book was pretty good. I would of liked for it to be a little more in depth. Unless I missed something, I never got their answer, only there brief reactions. Otherwise, I thought the book was pretty informative.
First of all this book was typed with very small type.so if your eye sight isn't what it used to be, don't bother.unless you have a magnifying glass handy.The contents of the book left me with more questions than answers. I wish the author would of been more in depth with the procedures of embalming such as the orafices are plugged up.well, with what. Also there must be a few mistakes made in the business of death.none were mentioned. Also alittle on decomisition would of helped me to understand the dying process.This book left me hanging in my casket.
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