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Greening Death

Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
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Description

We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States.

Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up--a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.

Product Details

PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publish DateSeptember 01, 2015
Pages214
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781442241565
Dimensions9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches | 1.1 pounds

About the Author

Suzanne Kelly, PhD, is an independent scholar whose work spans the topics of the environment, feminism, sex, and death. She writes and farms in New York's Hudson Valley.

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Readers of Omegaunderstand the importance of hands-on activity in walking through the grief process and Kelly does a fine job of paving a way for that to begin during the chaos of early grief.-- "Omega - Journal of Death and Dying"

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