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Mortuary Science: Streaming Media & Videos
Streaming Media from Films On Demand
Films On Demand, our streaming video database, has several educational videos on this subject. Hover over the information icon for a complete description.
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Homegoings Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community. It reveals the special status of undertakers; borne out of their permanence, their economic stability, and the necessities of the segregation period. Combining cinéma vérité with intimate interviews and archival photographs, the film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families, and a man who sends loved ones “home.” With English subtitles. (57 minutes)
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Billy Connolly's Big Send Off DESCRIPTION Comedian and Hollywood star Billy Connolly is a big fan of life. He’s effervescent, energized and inspired by it, but he’s also genuinely fascinated by the way we as humans treat death. This program follows the straight-talking Scot as he explores changing attitudes, beliefs and approaches towards death, while also considering his own approach to the final curtain. Billy strolls around America’s largest funeral convention, discovering the hundreds of ways that you can put someone in the ground, on the moon, in a diamond or even turn them into a mushroom! He also catches up with old friend Eric Idle to discuss how the Monty Python star’s “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” has become one of the UK’s most played funeral songs, and ponders what music he’d choose as a part of his own final send off. A BBC Production.
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Saying Goodbye Almost no one will escape the pain of surviving a loved one. This program from The Doctor Is In talks to people who have gone through this difficult time to find out how they dealt with their grief: a support group for widows, a woman whose parents died within a year of each other, and a woman whose husband died of cancer and left her with a young child. Also interviewed are a hospital chaplain and the director of a hospice. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center production. (26 minutes)
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Modern Marvels: Cemeteries They lie in silence, cities within cities, where a tomb is a home and transportation is one way. Let us be your guide to a land you will someday enter and never leave. From the history of ground burial to today's high-tech cremation, learn about how you will get to your final resting place. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes)
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In Search of History: Last Rites—Death Ceremonies Using rare footage and interviews with leading historians, this program offers a revealing look at the ways different societies around the world and throughout history have dealt with death. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes)
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