Sandra E. Ollsin Royal Roads University 2012 An interactive, multimedia presentation

"When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” Friedrich Nietzche

A funeral celebrant provides funeral, memorial or celebration-of-life services that are highly personalized, and reflect the beliefs, personality and lifestyle of the person who has died.

“The visual has implications not only for the discourses of modernity and ethnographic practice, but also for our understandings of the individuals who are the subjects of ethnography” (Pink, 2006, p. 16).