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American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
American Afterlife Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
Author: Kate Sweeney
Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch?s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, ?You can make mummies with it!? while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mot...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780820350585
ISBN-10: 0820350583
Publication Date: 10/1/2016
Pages: 232
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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