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

by Suzanne Kelly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144224156X
• ISBN13: 9781442241565
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"