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02629aam a2200289 i 4500 001 8598E1B05E8D11EE943BD51C20ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230929010040 008 230201s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022055286 020 $a 1915294126 020 $a 9781915294128 040 $d IaEs $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Callender, Rupert, $d 1970- 245 1 $a What remains? : $b life, death and the human art of undertaking / $c Rupert Callender. 264 1 $a White River Junction, Vermont : $b Chelsea Green Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a xxii, 263 pages ; 24 cm. 520 $a "When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. What Remains? is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world's first punk undertaker-but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way. In becoming the world's first "punk undertaker" and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted, traditional, structured world of the funeral industry; fusing what he had learned from his own deeply personal experiences with death, with the surprising and profound answers and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick. From his unresolved grief for his parents and his cultural ancestors to political and religious non- conformists, social outlaws, experimental pioneers, and acid house culture, Ru Callender has taken too an outsider "DIY" ethos to help people navigate grief and death. He has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father's funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of KLF, is building the People's Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool. What Remains? is a profound, deeply moving, and politically charged book that will change the way readers think about life, death, and the all-important end-of-life experience"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230619. 650 $a Undertakers and undertaking $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 $a Funeral rites and ceremonies $z Great Britain $v Anecdotes. 650 4 $a Bereavement $z Great Britain $v Anecdotes. 650 $a Grief $z Great Britain $v Anecdotes. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103011307.0 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20230929010155.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8598E1B05E8D11EE943BD51C20ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search