HW 51- Second Third of Grave Matters

Precis

The ways of laying a deceased one to rest has produced a lot more optional procedures in the years past. Besides the traditional buriel 6 feet under, many other ways of packing a dead body has now become of. There's cremation, buriel at sea, there's even a growing popularity of green buriel. With new and interesting characteristics involved in saying farewell to a loved one loss, those grieving feel less sad and mournful knowing they have options in putting their loved ones out of sight and out of mind.

Quotes

"Today, some thirty percent of all Americans are cremated. By 2025, the percentage will jump to forty five percent......Five years later, the number of cremations will outnumber the nuumber of buriels for the first time in our history". (Pg 55)

""The memorial service was my last act as a son. Id done what I had to do for mom, and it had gone well"" (pg 66)

"The US Navy continues to offer buriel at sea for any active duty, retired and veteran soilder, of all service branches, as well as their spouses and dependent children, free of charge. Today, it conducts some thousand sea buriels a tear, aboard the US naval ships. All but twenty five to fifty are buriels of cremated remains" (pg 73)

This second third of Grave Matters concentrates on the multiple types of laying a loved one to rest there is today. Besides the regular buriel underground, its interesting how much more options people have in what to do with their bodies or bodies of loved ones when they become deceased. This is most definitly a blow to those who work in funeral parlors and who at one point were the only carers of the dead because these multiple laying of rests is considered to be competition of business. Its amazing how the way you are laid to rest can be beneficial in other ways too (e.g.donate your body to science, have fake parts of you (metal hip) be a fixture of marine life, etc).