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Walking Among Lilies: Memoirs of a Modern Mortician is a deeply personal journey into the world of death care, grief, and resilience. Ashby invites readers into the intimate spaces of funeral homes, cemeteries, and embalming rooms, revealing the unseen labor, humor, and humanity behind a profession that most shy away from. From reconstructing faces and guiding families through final goodbyes to finding solace in music, journals, and nature, this memoir explores how one learns to carry grief without being consumed by it. Rich with vivid detail, tender reflection, and darkly human humor, Walking Among Lilies is a testament to the quiet courage of morticians and a meditation on life, loss, and the rituals that help us navigate both. Readers will leave with a deeper understanding of death, yes-but also a renewed appreciation for living fully.

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Selene Ashby has spent much of her life in the quiet, sacred spaces where grief meets love. As a funeral director and embalmer, she has walked the delicate line between life and death, guiding families through their most fragile moments and offering dignity to those who can no longer speak for themselves. Over the years, she has restored faces altered by time or tragedy, arranged rituals of farewell, and borne witness to the profound humanity that emerges in the presence of loss. Her work has been both a vocation and a mirror, teaching her that death is never only about endings-it is also about the bonds that endure, the rituals that connect us, and the ways we find to keep living. With compassion, candor, and even flashes of dark humor, Selene offers readers an insider's view of a profession that is often hidden in shadows. Walking Among Lilies: Memoirs of a Modern Mortician is her first book, a memoir that captures the humor, heartbreak, and resilience of a life shaped by death but committed to honoring life. When she isn't working in the funeral home or writing in her journals, Selene finds refuge in long walks in the woods, quiet music, and moments of laughter with the friends who remind her that joy is as essential as grief.

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