It’s more dangerous to your health to fly on an airplane than it is to be in the same room as a corpse.

The people in the reefer would probably not have hung out together in the living world. The elderly black man with a myocardial infarction, the middle-aged white mother with ovarian cancer, the young Hispanic man who had been shot just a few blocks from the crematory. Death had brought them all here for a kind of United Nations summit, a roundtable

results!” Really though, there is never a way to leave the past behind. My poor dead witch babies came right along with me.

The ancient Ethiopians would place their dead in the lake where they fished, so the fish would have the opportunity to receive back the nutrients. The earth is expertly designed to take back what it has created.

we do not believe in embalming. It is not a ritual that brings us comfort; it is an additional $900 charge on our funeral bills.

Mitford grudgingly admitted that Forest Lawn’s Hubert Eaton “probably had more influence on the trends of the modern cemetery industry than any other human being,”

Dr. Troyer, whose PhD dissertation was titled “Technologies of the Human Corpse,” is studying crematoriums that capture the excess heat from the cremation process and put it to use elsewhere—heating other buildings, or even, as one crematory in Worcestershire did, a local swimming pool, saving taxpayers £14,500 a year. It is a way to make the

In 1899, a mere 4 percent of the US population was over sixty-five—forget making it to eighty-five.

in trade magazines like The Shroud, The Western Undertaker, and The Sunnyside.