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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, by Thomas Lynch

Started by Shadowborn, September 13, 2006, 10:32:29 AM

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Shadowborn

I just thought I'd offer up this title as a recommendation to you all. Thomas Lynch is a poet who is also the funeral director for a small town in Michigan. This book is an introspective journey through his work, and how he and others deal with the concepts and realities of death. It's a marvelous read and has the definite potential to challenge the reader. I highly recommend picking it up and giving it a try.
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society." -- Krishnamurti

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

Zak Roy Yoballa

You've got me "dead to rites" on this one.  I've never heard of it!
Your attitude is the only thing they can't take from you.

Shadowborn

Heh, I'd never heard of it either, but it was part of the reading for a creative writing class of mine, and it remains some of the best creative nonfiction I've read.
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society." -- Krishnamurti

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

Zak Roy Yoballa

Writing a non-fiction book like that is a huge "undertaking".  I bet people were "dieing" to get mentioned in it!  To be a mortician one must have a "stiff" upper lip and be "rigor-ous" in one's beliefs. 

I'd make a joke about his name but it is too obvious...
Your attitude is the only thing they can't take from you.

Shadowborn

I'm betting you couldn't come up with a pun or quip based on his profession that he hasn't already heard...he's pretty old.

Did I mention he's a Poet Laureate?
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society." -- Krishnamurti

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

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