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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Kelly, Suzanne

Paperback

Death & DyingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0810895811
ISBN13: 9780810895812
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 28 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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 to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up--a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.

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