Curtains: Adventures of an undertaker in training
by Tom Jokinen
25 June 2010
Tom Jokinen quit a good government job to work at a family-run funeral home and crematorium as a trainee undertaker. This drastic vocational change gave him an amazing opportunity to explore first-hand our culture's relationship with the dead, dying, and left behind.
In a modern society where religion has lost its grip on the rituals of transition; the funeral trade fights to make its work relevant to a new, secular, consumer culture - as it positions itself for its biggest potential wave of income ever: the death of the baby boomers.
Curtains is a hair-raising and hilarious account of Jokinen's adventures. It is enlightening, funny, and full of life in the midst of death.