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Grave Matters: A Journey Through The Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial Scribner, 2007. 191 pages. Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaninful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Harris covers embalming, home funerals, modern corporate cemeteries, memorial reefs for ashes, woodland burial, and much more. Each chapter ends with a helpful, bulleted list of the main points, and where you can go on the web to find out how to accomplish what the family profiled in each chapter did. "Anyone who reads Mark Harris's straightforward account of Americans who are taking back control of funeral rituals will come away inspired. The families in Grave Matters remind us what funerals are really for. No amount of money, no conspicuous funerary consumption, can buy the satisfaction of honoring our dead in a truly personal way" — Josh Slocum, Executive Director, Funeral Consumers Alliance |
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