When, as a young man, Thomas P.J. Crean took over the funeral business his grandfather had founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, funeral homes comforted and served local families and their communities. The "rationalization" of the industry in the 1970s brought multinational conglomerates that bought out countless funeral homes and kept up a "family business" fa ade while sacrificing integrity to shareholder profits. Since 1975, Crean has...