The growing industry of green burials
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Explore "funeral industry" with insightful episodes like "The growing industry of green burials", "Selects: How Coffins Work", "793: Death | Skeptical Sunday", "Short Stuff: The Casket Racket" and "The Sunday Read: 'The Movement to Bring Death Closer'" from podcasts like ""The Indicator from Planet Money", "Stuff You Should Know", "The Jordan Harbinger Show", "Stuff You Should Know" and "The Daily"" and more!
Sure, you've probably laid in one at the store or a funeral home, but how much do you know about receptacles used to bury the dead? We'll bet you'll learn plenty - like the difference between a coffin and a casket - in this classic episode.
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Are you dead wrong to trust the funeral industry in having your best interests at heart when it's time to shuffle off your mortal coil?
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And you thought we were done with talking about funeral homes. Well guess again!
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“If death practices reveal a culture’s values,” writes Maggie Jones, the author of today’s Sunday Read, “we choose convenience, outsourcing, an aversion to knowing or seeing too much.”
Enter home-funeral guides, practitioners who believe families can benefit from tending to — and spending time with — the bodies of the deceased.
On today’s Sunday Read, listen to Ms. Jones’s story about the home-funeral movement and the changing nature of America’s funeral practices.
This story was written by Maggie Jones and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Sure, you've probably laid in one at the store or a funeral home, but how much do you know about receptacles used to bury the dead? We'll bet you'll learn plenty - like the difference between a coffin and a casket - in this episode.
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