Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground (Paperback)

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Product Description

Why is a 700-hundred-year-old Sufi mystic one of the best-selling poets in America today? Rumi's verses embrace human and spiritual truths fearlessly and without regard to social convention. This volume contains more than 300 translations of the poet's short poems and 32 plates of original Persian calligraphy as well as a description of the life of the poet.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890132918
• ISBN-13: 978-1890132910
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #392,493 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Underground Classic, September 4, 2005

By	Charlie Z (Louisville, KY, USA) - See all my reviews

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No pun intended, this short (144-page) journey through funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematoriums with side trips to probate lawyers, casket-makers, astrologers, and stone-cutters (among others) is truly an underground classic and a MUST-READ for baby-boomers. Once you start talking about it, you will be surprised how many of your contemporaries have read it. Matson doesn't have all the answers, but he raises thought-provoking questions about dying (and what happens next) in a manner which will bring a smile to your face while enlightening you about things you never thought about, much less knew--although you will quickly sense that you DO need to think about them and DO need to know about them.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book was instrumental in my career as a funeral director., December 20, 2007

By	R.Brian Burkhardt "YourFuneralGuy & Author &#... (IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground (Paperback)

This book raises the key questions about the Funeral Industry.
It was very instrumental in my changing careers and becoming a funeral director. It is quite an exciting journey and the author gives you an exiting ride to deadsville and back. The book needs an update and that is why there are only four stars. Several years ago it met my needs, and answered a lot of questions. It is a book I would still purchase today, but is not the first book on funerals I would recomend. It is very descriptive and I especially enjoyed the section on Casket making.




yourfuneralGuy, Funeral Director.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eat well, stay fit and die anyway!, October 3, 2000

By	"nhorster" (Munich, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground (Paperback)

This wonderfully humorous book will open your eyes to the underworld. You'll never think about dying the same way again. All the important stops in the nowadays astonishingly complicated process of getting yourself underground are visited and at the end leave you wanting more... Enjoy the read, Matson does a fabolous job of drawing you into an eerie subject.