Download or read book Confessions of an L A Funeral Director written by Denny Dormody and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its rainy. The oncoming headlights are blinding me. I have to stay awake. Its 2:00 A.M. and less than two feet behind me is the body of a woman scheduled for burial in about six hours... A 24 year-old Hispanic male has taken a bullet to the head. A drug deal gone bad. The Mortician in charge has done a remarkable job hiding the head wound. The wound is invisible... This was no White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. No Beverly Hills. No Beverly Thrills. It was a step above a flop house and maybe only a half-step... Every day in the City of Angels and Actors, hundreds of people are buried. These are their stories... L.A. Funeral Director and comedy writer Denny Dormody, a working actor and an active member of the Screen Actors Guild, moonlights to pay the rent... "Denny Dormody, I hope you become a better writer." -- Kirk Douglas "Good to meet you. Good luck and good writing..." -- Michael Connelly, Author, The Black Box Comedy scribes Denny Dormody & Michael Conley have inked with Loeb & Loeb for Literary representation -- The Hollywood Reporter

Download or read book Dying to Meet You written by Angjolie Mei and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying

Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Diva written by Muneerah Warner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Funeral Diva! A Riveting Expose of One Woman's Rough Life in the Funeral Industry that Provides Hope and Faith to All. INSIDE: INSIDE: * Be shocked & amazed by what Muneerah experienced while working in the death-care industry. * Learn the history of women in the funeral industry. * Get facts about funeral trends, myths & superstitions. * Be inspired with affirmations for funeral industry women. * Find out how women are changing the face of the industry. ... and so much more. M u n e e r a h W a r n e r A renown funeral industry consultant, coach & author with twenty years' experience in the funeral industry. Muneerah is the founder of Eternal Enterprises, Inc. Eternal Enterprises is the parent company of Funerals Today magazine, Funeral Divas, Inc. & Eternal Caskets. Eternal Enterprises also hosts seminars for both families and funeral professionals. Muneerah has been featured on The Steve Harvey Show on NBC, the Food Network, the cover of American Funeral Director magazine, The New York Times, The front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other newspapers, magazines, radio shows and websites. MuneerahWarner.info - EternalEnterprises.net"

Download or read book Looney Tombs written by David Goulet and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mortuary Confidential written by Todd Harra and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Download or read book Confessions of a Hollywood Movie Extra written by Denny Dormody and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SAG working actor and comedy author Denny Dormody takes you along. Along to: Movie sets. TV shoots. Auditions. A-list insightful conversations to die for. Conversations with: Icons past: Jeff Corey, Lew Wasserman, Gregory Peck and Icons present; Directors David Fincher, Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner. Actors like George Clooney, Al Pacino, John Goodman, Hugh Jackman, Rosamund Pike and many more. Youll be behind the movie scenes on: Jersey Boys, Danny Collins, Hail, Caesar and TV shows like 2 Broke Girls, FXs O.J Simpson Trial, Scandal and many more. This is Dormodys 4th book and perhaps his most candid look at unlocking LA LA Lands hard-to-open doors. His call-to-action anecdotal stories are: Hilarious. Touching. Poignant. Outrageous. Inspiring. Its all about staying in the game. All about going the distance. All about surviving Hollywood.

Download or read book Curtains written by Tom Jokinen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revisedThe American Way of Death, more surprising thanSix Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating thanStiff.If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you’d haveCurtains.

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time In L A Hollywood and Other Stories written by Denny Dormody and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denny's Call Sheets: Seabiscuit. The Grifters. Entourage. Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull. Hail Caesar. Atlas Shrugged. Simone. War of the Worlds. Bosch. Mad Men. Grey's Anatomy. 24. Vice. A Bride's Revenge. Aftermath. Gaslit and many more. Actors, Writers. Directors. As Mank might write and as Bette might say: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumopy, fun read." You coudln't buy this education. Until now. . .

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Download or read book The Making of a Funeral Director written by Janice J Richardson and published by Janice J. Richardson. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10% of being a Funeral Director is dealing with the dead, the other 90% is helping the living. Perhaps the most asked personal question of any mortician/undertaker/funeral director is why? Why would you want to be a funeral director? Janice Richardson heard that a lot. Not always an easy question to answer. Funeral directors the world over share the same goal, to help people. Grief and death are something all human beings face. But why be around death and grief most of the time? Why not medicine, or police service, or accounting? Someone has to do it and when Jan was 8 years old she knew that would be her career choice. What does a funeral director do with their day? What kind of education do they need? From the first time transferring a body to the funeral home and into the prep room, to coroner's calls, and stillbirths, journey with Janice through a fulfilling career in an often misunderstood profession. "Written with compassion and grace, this book is more than just a what is a funeral director's job is and what happens to our loved ones. This book tells the story of the author's journey with honesty and integrity." Karen K.

Download or read book Confessions of a D C Madam written by Henry Vinson and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties, Confessions of a D.C. Madame relates the author’s time running the largest gay escort service in Washington, DC, and his interactions with VIPs from government, business, and the media who solicited the escorts he employed. The book details the federal government’s pernicious campaign waged against the author to ensure his silence and how he withstood relentless, fabricated attacks by the government, which included incarceration rooted in trumped up charges and outright lies. This fascinating and shocking facet of government malfeasance reveals the integral role blackmail plays in American politics and the unbelievable lengths the government perpetrates to silence those in the know.

Download or read book The Greatest People I Never Knew written by Eric M. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when electronic games are at the top of almost every child's Christmas list, a mysterious visitor warms her way into the hearts of Santa's long entrusted elves. Turning their workshop upside down she is on a quest to honor Santa's special invitation. She accepts the challenge to encourage children to experience the wonder and the countless adventures within the Pages of a book! With a little magic and a sprinkle of sparkles this colorfully illustrated holiday story will surely bring new fun and excitement to an old tradition of reading books together as a family. Read this book with a child and share in the magic as they catch the sprinkle of sparkles in their own eyes!

Download or read book I m Dying to Tell Ya written by Doris Amen and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fast, funny and totally enjoyable. Who would have known there was humor in dying! Amen tells you the nitty-gritty of the industry with candor."~ Catherine Arnold, author of Due Process, Imperfect Justice, Wrongful Death, Class Action and the novel, Journey. "In her lengthy career as one of New York's most colorful and best-known funeral directors, Doris Amen has seen and Glone more than most. On the pages of this book, Amen tells some of those stories as only she can." ~ Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, author of Grave Undertakings and Green-Wood Cemetery.

Download or read book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Download or read book Preserved written by Dean G. Lampros and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape"--