American Afterlife : Encounters in the Customs of Mourning.

Someone dies. What happens next?. One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a greenburial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, "You can make mummies with it!" while a leading contemporary buria...

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Author / Creator: Sweeney, Kate.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.
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