Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training by Tom Jokinen

Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training


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Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training Tom Jokinen
Publisher: Da Capo Press


Make sure it's the right one. This business, when you shake it down to first principles, is the burial or cremation of the dead, two relatively irreversible acts. Mistakes are frowned upon. Please check the ID tag carefully Never stop for food on the way back to the funeral home when you're "carrying," not even at a drive-thru. It's bad for the brand, and is apt to put other drive-thru-ers off their doughnuts. So begins Tom Jokinen's immersion in a world few of us see. In 2006, Jokinen, a relatively well-paid and well-employed radio producer, quit his job in order to work as an apprentice in a small, third-generation, family-owned funeral home. He did it partly because he is of Finnish extraction; as he writes, a Finn's greatest pleasure in life is imagining who exactly might come to his funeral and what might happen there. But mostly he did it because he wanted to find out first-hand what goes on in that gap between death and burial at a time when our relationship with the dead is changing radically. And Curtains is about what he found, from the mundane to the macabre, from the completely comic to the totally heartfelt. For anyone who's secretly wondered why they paid $2,000 for a five-pound bag of dust-or questioned whether the dust in that bag was actually the remains of the person they laved-Tom Jokinen lifts the veil on a funeral industry that has evolved dramatically since Jessica Mitford revised her classic, The American Way of Death. Mordantly funny, Curtains takes us places we've tried very hard not to go, shedding light on how we live by illuminating the way we deal with our dead.

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