Despite the widespread attention garnered by Jessica Mitford's 1963 expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, the American way of death still includes average funeral expenses of between $8,000 and $12,000. What's more, every year conventional burials in the U.S. bury 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, containing carcinogenic formaldehyde; hundreds of thousands of tons of wood, steel, copper, and bronze caskets; and millions of tons of concrete vaults. There is a better way and Fournier, affectionately dubbed the "Green Reaper," walks readers through it,...
Despite the widespread attention garnered by Jessica Mitford's 1963 expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, the American way...
