Parting Ways: New Rituals and Celebrations of Life's Passing

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Overview

Parting Ways explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. Denise Carson contrasts her father's passing in the 1980s, governed by the structures of institutionalized death, with her mother's death some two decades later. Carson's moving account of her mother's dying at home vividly portrays a ceremonial farewell known as a living wake, showing how it closed the gap between social and biological death while opening the door for family and friends to reminisce with her mother. Carson also investigates a variety of solutions—living funerals, oral ethical wills, and home funerals—that revise the impending death scenario.
Integrating the profoundly personal with the objectively historical, Parting Ways calls for an "end of life revolution" to change the way of death in America.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520268739
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 4/10/2011
  • Pages: 328
  • Sales rank: 693,727
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Denise Carson is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and a columnist at the Orange County Register, where she tells stories of how people celebrate the end of life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue xiii

Introduction 1

Part I End-Of-Life Celebrations and Pre-Death Rituals

1 Her Choice: Two Paths Leading to the Same Destination 11

2 Living Funeral: Celebrating the End of Life 33

3 Her Life Review: Reliving the Past in the Present 60

4 Legacy of Memories: Telling Life Stories and Last Wishes 79

5 Her Season of Lasts: Traditional, Seasonal, Communal Rituals 103

6 Oral Ethical Will: Video Recording Valuable Last Words 123

7 Her Living Wake: Reminiscing and Farewell Party 144

8 Vigil: Holding Hands at the Eleventh Hour 160

Part II Post-Death and Memorializing Rituals

9 Her Twenty-First-Century Memorial Service, His Twentieth-Century Funeral 183

10 Home Funeral: Eco-Friendly Way Out 206

11 Holistic Approach: Design-It-Yourself Funeral and Cremation Witnessing 228

12 The Living Unveiling: Technology Innovates Memorializing 258

13 Her Truth: Finding Life after Death 274

Notes 295

Bibliography 305

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