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Interviewee
Forbes, Dan April 2, 1997 

Call Number
96-163

Physical Description

36 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 70 minutes; index

Interviewer
Granbois, Judith A.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Dan Forbes describes being a funeral director in Indianapolis and Paoli, Indiana. He shares his feelings and thoughts on his father's illness, final wishes, and death, and his mother's illness. Forbes discusses helping others plan for funerals, the importances of a funeral service and support from the community. He also discusses planning his own funeral and living will. He shares his wishes for his graveside service and his family's happiness.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • American Medical Association
  • Indiana College of Mortuary Sciences
• • Occupation Names
  • funeral director
  • minister
• • Personal Names
  • Babcock, James
  • Moseman, Luke B.
  • Quinlan, Karen Ann
• • Place Names
  • Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Paoli, Indiana
• • Subjects
  • artificial nutrition
  • Baptist church
  • bypass surgery
  • convalescent center
  • family deaths
  • family disagreements
  • family relations
  • funeral dinners
  • funeral homes
  • funeral preparations
  • funeral services
  • good death
  • health care
  • hospice
  • illness
  • living wills
  • nursing home care
  • pain management
  • personal effects
  • visitation services