I Died Laughing: Funeral Education with a Light Touch. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.I Died Laughing: Funeral Education with a Light Touch

This is a very funny book, even though it also includes some serious consumer information. Lisa Carlson has collected cartoons, jokes, funny quotations, humorous last words, and a wide range of other old and new material. As the advice columnist Dear Abby remarked, This book proves that dying can be a laughing matter. At the end of each section, Carlson has a page or two of information and advice for those who may someday have the job of arranging a funeral for a friend or relative, or who may be contemplating the arrangements they prefer when they die.Half the profits from sale of the book will be contributed to the work of the national nonprofit consumer organization, Funeral Consumers Alliance. Several well-known cartoonists and illustrators made their work available in support of this cause: these include P.S. Mueller, Rina Picccolo, and the estate of Edward Gorey.With this short book, you can have a good laugh, learn something in process, and support good cause at the same time.

Lisa Carlson is a full-time consumer activist and some-time hell raiser, working on behalf of Americans to protect their rights in dealing with the funeral industry. For many years, she served as executive director of the non-profit Funeral Consumers Alliance, the national consumer organisation with approximately 120 state and local affiliates. She is now executive director of Funeral Ethics Organisation.