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A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Scribner
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
208 pages
ISBN: 0743277686
EAN: 9780743277686
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave
sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans
all across the country were starting to look outside the box
when death came calling. 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.
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