What Remains? (Hardcover)
Rupert Callender
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Add to basketHardcover. Sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle. The TimesCallenders joyous, thought-provoking book is an account of how his own early encounters with bereavement led to him becoming a new kind of undertaker. Daily MailThis book is a great work of craft and beauty. Salena GoddenI loved What Remains? Funny, demystifying, but mostly, deeply moving. Kathy Burke, Actor and DirectorThis compelling personal story of a pioneering punk undertaker is a moving revelation. Love ReadingInspiring and unforgettable. John Higgs, author of William Blake vs the WorldDeath has shown me . . . the unbreakable core of love and courage that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.Ru Callender wanted to become an undertaker in order to offer people a more honest experience than the stilted formality of traditional Victorian funerals. Driven by raw emotion and the unresolved grief of losing his own parents, Ru brought an outsider, DIY ethos to the business of death, combined with the kinship and inspiration he found in rave culture, social outlaws and political nonconformists.Ru has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their fathers funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of the KLF, is building the Peoples Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool all in the name of creating truly authentic experiences that celebrate those who are no longer here and those who remain.Radical, poignant, unflinchingly real and laugh-aloud funny, What Remains? will change the way you think about life, death and the human experience. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny.
“Rupert Callender hope[s] to redefine the funeral.”―The Telegraph
When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. What Remains? is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world’s first punk undertaker―but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way.
In becoming the world’s first “punk undertaker” and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted, traditional, structured world of the funeral industry; fusing what he had learned from his own deeply personal experiences with death, with the surprising and profound answers and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick.
From his unresolved grief for his parents and his cultural ancestors to political and religious non- conformists, social outlaws, experimental pioneers, and acid house culture, Ru Callender has taken too an outsider “DIY” ethos to help people navigate grief and death. He has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father’s funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of KLF, is building the People’s Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool.
What Remains? is a profound, deeply moving, and politically charged book that will change the way readers think about life, death, and the all-important end-of-life experience.
“Death has shown me unimaginable horror, the unbreakable core of love and courage that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.”―Rupert Callender, from What Remains?
Rupert Callender was moved to become an undertaker through his experience of bereavement and its aftermath. He spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring, humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to his work. He opened the Green Funeral Company with Claire in 2000, and the company is now among the country’s best-known eco-friendly funeral directors; in 2012 they won Joint Best Funeral Director at the first Good Funeral Awards and were described as ‘The best undertakers of all time, by a country mile’ by Good Funeral Guide author, Charles Cowling. In 2021 Claire left the company and Rupert continues with a new colleague.
Callender, Phillips, Cauty & Drummond, Undertakers to the Underworld was established as a partnership between the Green Funeral Company and (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (KLF) in 2017.
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