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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
by Harris, Mark
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743277686
- ISBN 13
- 9780743277686
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Scribner Book Company, 2007. Hardcover. Good/Good . 6x0x9. An x-library copy. Grave Matters follows families who found in green burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin. In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families and, literally, give back from the grave, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.
Synopsis
Includes index.
Reviews
On Jan 8 2017, a reader said:
I have this book...I have given several copies of this book away to my friends. It is a common sense look at how we can do burials in different ways...no one way is "right" for everyone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010026329
- Title
- Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
- Author
- Harris, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0743277686
- ISBN 13
- 9780743277686
- Publisher
- Scribner Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 6x0x9
- LCCN
- 2006050622
- X weight
- 12 oz
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