HW 51

Precis:
 June Knights Nadle: Morticians Diaries: Nadle gives a recollection of true stories from her career as a mortician, starting each chapter explaining how death impacted her life and ending them with a story from a client then her final thoughts on it. She writes hoping to give insight to death and to show from a perspective of dead-honest truth from a life spent with death

Quotes:
"A funeral is a pause in our life to acknowledge that a life has been lived. It allows mourners to remeber and honor that life in a special way. It is a chance for family and friends to gather and give emotional and and physical support to one another. It provides closure for some It brings to all of our minds the reality and finality of death" (pg 52)
"I had to accept the fact that trails are just part of life" (pg 42)


The second part of the book really focused on the importance of the funeral itself. Although funerals are made for the dead the are to be experianced for the living. The author gives examples of people who . One of them was a woman named Mary, she was at her sons funeral and then a gang related drive-by happened, although advised not to go she knew the importance of greiving and still went even thought there was a chance of another drive-by. There was another lady who had lost her husband but he didnt want a funeral although he didnt want one she said she needed one, which was true. Before that she was in a mental rut in her life but after they had a nice funeral she was able to move on with her life after getting closure. Anotheer example was the lady who lost her husband but was mad at him, because she was left with three boys to take care of. At first she didnt care what happened to her husbands creamated remains and told the mortician to throw it anywhere, but the mortician did not and waited for the lady to get an answer. Later she came back glad to find the creamains left because she actually wanted them buried so her longing boy can be with thier father. The lady realized she was being selfish and that funerals affected more then just her. All these examples showed that the funeral was very impportant and that had they not wanted or attended it, its effects on the coping and healing would be stumped.