Death: The Trip of a Lifetime (2nd Edition)

by Greg Palmer

Overview

Who said the reaper has to be grim? Filled with the frightening, funny, poignant, & just plain weird, this delightfully different travelogue follows one man's quest to discover how people around the world cope with the incontrovertible fact of death. The result is a wise, witty, decidedly quirky celebration of how we all face life. Explores human beings simultaneous fear & fascination with death; the physiological & psychological experience of death; the world s funeral & grieving rites; & religious, spiritual, & philosophical theories about immortality. This edition includes an Epilogue.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150658653
Publisher:	Bennett & Hastings Publishing
Publication date:	09/29/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	332
Sales rank:	676,129
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Greg Palmer was a writer of books, plays, articles, speeches, advertising, and news, reviews, feature stories and documentaries for commercial and public television and radio for more than forty years. At the tender age of 27, he won the prestigious Peabody Award for radio humor. He was the Arts and Entertainment editor at KING TV in Seattle for 13 years, during which time his work won thirteen regional Emmy awards, the Ohio State Award for Children�s Television, and several other accolades. And he is undoubtedly the only person in the world who has been designated both the California Funeral Directors� Media Man of the Year and an Official Hero of the People�s Republic of Georgia.
His books include The GI�s Rabbi: World War II Letters of David Max Eichhorn (edited with Mark S. Zaid); Adventures in the Mainstream: Coming of Age with Down Syndrome, the story of two years in the life of his younger son Ned; Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, a compelling, funny and moving examination of the ultimate subject; and Cheese Deluxe: A Memoir. As a writer/producer and on-screen host, he created Vaudeville, Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, The Art of Magic, and Videogame Revolution for national broadcast on PBS. He also wrote Part III of The Perilous Fight: World War II in Color, a joint British-US production for PBS.

Editorial Reviews

"The aging Sixties generation now confronts death in this non-fiction romp that rivals Evelyn Waugh's classic "The Loved One" as a laugh-a-minute examination of death rituals and customs � quite interesting and entertaining."

http://www.gregpalmer.com/books_death.php - Library Journal Editor

"It's hard to believe a book on death could be this much fun to read. � The guy is a born storyteller, with every good storyteller's vigilant sixth sense of the enjoyment of his listeners. Palmer possesses an astonishing cinematic memory--the look on a face, the length of a pause, the inflection of a voice--and can spin that memory into something nearly mythic. It makes perfect sense that for Palmer, memory is the form the afterlife takes."

Library Journal - Kathryn Robinson

"Neither morose nor coyly dismissive in his narrative, the author largely avoids the TV-news "cutes" in his descriptions . . . (he) understands that Western civilization is as attracted to death as much as it is scared to death of it, especially in its popular culture. � The subjects are gruesome, but Mr. Palmer's touch is light enough to let us know he feels the same nervousness that we do about them. Laughing about it, Mr. Palmer seems to be saying, is about the only defensive mechanism we hav

Baltimore Sun - Michael Anft