New American Funerals: Creating and Delivering Nonreligious End-of-Life Ceremonies
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New American Funerals is the first book in more than 30 years to focus solely on nonreligious American end-of-life ceremonies and how the professional celebrant can create them. Many changes have since impacted American death practices, from tech
Elizabeth Nordberg Stokes
Elizabeth Nordberg Stokes is a professional humanist celebrant who has been designing and delivering end-of-life ceremonies in New England for more than five years. She also teaches end-of-life ceremonies at Celebrant Academy, one of the few U.S. organizations supporting the education of professional celebrants. Prior to becoming a celebrant, she was in a leadership position in a Quaker organization and was a freelance editor focused on memoir and fiction. She holds a B.S. in Communication Theory and Practice from Boston University with a focus in Creative Writing, and continues to write fiction in her free time. She is the lucky parent of two amazing teens, and together they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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