Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States

by Tanya Marsh and Daniel Gibson

Concerns about the cost and environmental consequences of the "traditional" American model of burial-embalming, casket, vault, single perpetual grave-are prompting the first significant challenges to American disposition practices since the Civil War. Burial itself is even being challenged-the popularity of cremation has exploded in recent decades and it will soon become the dominant practice. Americans eager to innovate in deathcare find that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692519084
• ISBN13: 9780692519080
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: God's Acre Publishing
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"