{"product_id":"what-remains-life-death-ritual-and-the-human-art-of-undertaking-hardcover","title":"What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRupert Callender\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeath is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Part memoir, part rant against the traditional funeral business, part manifesto, part just musing on death and facing it with compassion and courage. It's lovely and thoughtful and may make you rethink a few things.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book is a great work of craft and beauty.\"--Salena Godden, author of \u003cem\u003eMrs Death Misses Death\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. \u003cem\u003eWhat Remains?\u003c\/em\u003e is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world's first punk undertaker--but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn becoming the world's first \"punk undertaker\" and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted, traditional, structured world of the funeral industry; fusing what he had learned from his own deeply personal experiences with death, with the surprising and profound answers and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom his unresolved grief for his parents and his cultural ancestors to political and religious non-conformists, social outlaws, experimental pioneers, and acid house culture, Ru Callender has taken to an outsider \"DIY\" ethos to help people navigate grief and death. He has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father's funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of KLF, is building the People's Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Remains?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a profound, deeply moving, and politically charged book that will change the way readers think about life, death, and the all-important end-of\u003c\/strong\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003elife experience. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Rupert Callender hope[s] to redefine the funeral.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Death has shown me unimaginable horror, the unbreakable core of love and courage that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.\"--Rupert Callender, from \u003cem\u003eWhat Remains?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRu Callender\u003c\/strong\u003e was moved to become an undertaker through his experience of bereavement and its aftermath. He spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to his work. He opened The Green Funeral Company with Claire in 2000 and the company is now among the country's best-known eco-friendly funeral directors. In 2012, they won Joint Best Funeral Director at the first Good Funeral Awards and were described as 'The best undertakers of all time, by a country mile' by \u003cem\u003eGood Funeral Guide\u003c\/em\u003e author, Charles Cowling. Ru and Claire spoke at TEDx Totnes on death, grief, ritual and radical funerals. In 2021, Claire left the company and Ru continues with a new colleague.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCallender, Phillips, Cauty \u0026amp; Drummond: Undertakers to the Underworld was established as a partnership between The Green Funeral Company and The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (KLF) in 2017. Find out more at: www.thegreenfuneralcompany.co.uk and follow Ru on Twitter @wayswithweirds and RuCallender.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.28 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765732966688,"sku":"9781915294128","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5a4dc2ffac8709b6e9daad26577d611d.webp?v=1780278268","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-remains-life-death-ritual-and-the-human-art-of-undertaking-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}