Add to ORKGAbstract Methods for preparing and burying the dead vary widely across time and cultures, but an enduring theme persists in ritualistic deposition. Some forms of disposal include inhumation, cremation, entombment, sea submersion and methods of exposure (Spellman, 2014). For many cultures, an exposed corpse or one that had not been given ritualized funeral rites was viewed as improper or neglectful. Exposed or rotting bodies is also associated with disease and illness (Feagan. 2007). The transition from natural burial to preservative practices is a recent invention created in response to mass death during a wartime period (Stowe, Schmidt & Green, 2001). For the purposes of the historical discussion in this paper, we will be focusing on Ameri...
In a world in which the only certainty is death, people are often hesitant to discuss that inevitabi...
This study explores the recently emerging green burial movement in the United States and the potenti...
Death practices are a highly individual and sensitive, but also strongly social and socially regulat...
Abstract Methods for preparing and burying the dead vary widely across time and cultures, but an end...
While societies are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint in life, people rar...
This paper uses my own personal journey toward a green home burial as a vehicle for exploring this e...
In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms...
Nearly 80 million baby boomers are approaching the end of their lives. Being more environmentally co...
This poster summarizes research on the topic of the death care industry in America. It first examine...
In the late Nineteenth Century, doctors concerned with the unsanitary and crowded cemeteries of the ...
Green burial was the standard form of interment in the United States prior to the late 1800s. Durin...
The American funeral industry has long influenced how and where we bury the dead. Current industry-s...
The subject of to-night's paper is perhaps a somewhat sad one, and appeals largely to the sentiment...
The modern funeral industry faces many environmental risks and challenges, such as the use of sustai...
Over the last fifteen years, “green burial” has garnered support from growing numbers of ecologicall...
In a world in which the only certainty is death, people are often hesitant to discuss that inevitabi...
This study explores the recently emerging green burial movement in the United States and the potenti...
Death practices are a highly individual and sensitive, but also strongly social and socially regulat...
Abstract Methods for preparing and burying the dead vary widely across time and cultures, but an end...
While societies are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint in life, people rar...
This paper uses my own personal journey toward a green home burial as a vehicle for exploring this e...
In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms...
Nearly 80 million baby boomers are approaching the end of their lives. Being more environmentally co...
This poster summarizes research on the topic of the death care industry in America. It first examine...
In the late Nineteenth Century, doctors concerned with the unsanitary and crowded cemeteries of the ...
Green burial was the standard form of interment in the United States prior to the late 1800s. Durin...
The American funeral industry has long influenced how and where we bury the dead. Current industry-s...
The subject of to-night's paper is perhaps a somewhat sad one, and appeals largely to the sentiment...
The modern funeral industry faces many environmental risks and challenges, such as the use of sustai...
Over the last fifteen years, “green burial” has garnered support from growing numbers of ecologicall...
In a world in which the only certainty is death, people are often hesitant to discuss that inevitabi...
This study explores the recently emerging green burial movement in the United States and the potenti...
Death practices are a highly individual and sensitive, but also strongly social and socially regulat...