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Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession’s lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh’s novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525561.The_American_Way_of_Death

Note: The book is available as a download for E-Readers as is the update to the original book.

Video is 46:21 minutes long.

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Note to Readers. This is the final installment - for now. Early on I had seriously considered a career in this industry knowing it had the potential to be very lucrative in the right geographic location (preferably around retiree communities). Things changed, however I continue to follow the industry and the manipulation of the deceased's relatives. That being said I also have been full of intrigue from early childhood with the concepts of death, funeral practices etc. in various countries and cultures. Consider reading the Tibetan and Egyptian Books of the Dead.