Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Today things look very different, and the undertaker can draw on a lexicon as softly focused as any estate agent’s. As one wryly told me: ‘We deodorize death to within an inch of its life.’ No longer does someone die and be laid out in a coffin, or taken to a cemetery and cremated: instead they pass away or depart, are placed in a burial container,

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