Good Mourning

Name: Good Mourning
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Meyer
ISBN: 9781494580407

Author: Elizabeth Meyer

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/25/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women

Synopsis

Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father's funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother's favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting out as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city's most high-powered residents.

Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes, singular) was living a double life, a famous corpse with a missing brain, and funerals that cost more than most weddings. By turns illuminating, emotional, and darkly humorous, Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows—whether you're wearing this season's couture or drugstore flip-flops.

About Elizabeth Meyer

Elizabeth Meyer is passionate about making death a less taboo and scary topic. She holds a bachelor of arts from New York University's Gallatin School, an MBA from Cass Business School in London, a certification in thanatology from the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and is a licensed funeral director. She regularly contributes to news articles, speaks on nationally syndicated radio programs, and has given guest lectures about death and dying. Elizabeth lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 10, 2020

Rich Privileged Socialite gets a job as...a Funeral Planner? Part gossip column, part chicken soup for the soul - this book had it all. When Elizabeth Meyer had to plan her own father's funeral, she felt a strong connection to the funeral parlor. And, while wallowing in grief, she decided to apply fo......more

Goodreads review by Sue on August 27, 2015

When I requested this book I did so looking as much for a glance into the world of the funeral industry of New York City elites as for the world of the author but what I found was much more the latter. This is definitely an interesting book, with some good stories of actual funerals and planning and......more

Goodreads review by Esil on August 18, 2015

It was hard for me not to like Good Mourning. Elizabeth Mayer -- who recounts her work at an upscale funeral home in Manhattan -- is so damn likeable and sincere that she makes the topic interesting and forced me -- mostly -- to get past preconceptions I might have about her. Meyer grew up on Manhat......more

Goodreads review by Mindy on September 20, 2015

Not what I expected When I ordered this book, I was under the impression that the majority of it would be about working for an elite funeral home. I looked forward to hearing about what kind of funerals the upper crust of life really have. That's not what I got. Instead I got a memoir about just how......more

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on January 11, 2022

This is a memoir by Elizabeth Meyer. When her father dies, Elizabeth is planning her father’s funeral. Being from a well-to-do family, Elizabeth goes to this hoity-toity funeral parlor and to her family's dismay, she decides to apply for a job...as a funeral planner. She goes on to tell you all of th......more