Book ID: CBB707243716

Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth (2015)

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Suzanne Kelly (Author)


Rowman & Littlefield


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 214
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Troyer, John
Borgo, Melania
Poinar, Hendrik
Griffith, Lisa Marie
Gyula Priskin
Huwy-Min Lucia Liu
Concepts
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Death
Human body
Medicine
Tombs
Human remains
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20th century
19th century
Early modern
Medieval
18th century
Ancient
Places
England
Egypt
Dublin (Ireland)
Shanghai (China)
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