Greening death : reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the earth

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Label

Greening death : reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the earth

Title remainder

reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the earth

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne Kelly

Creator

• Kelly, Suzanne, 1969-
• trueKelly, Suzanne, 1969-

Subject

• Nature -- Effect of human beings on
• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Environmental aspects -- United States
• Environmental responsibility
• trueNature Writing -- Environmental Issues
• trueFunerals -- Environmental aspects
• trueFamily and relationships -- Aging and death
• trueNature -- Effect of humans on
• trueHuman ecology
• trueBurial
• Human ecology
• Burial -- Environmental aspects -- United States
• trueEnvironmental responsibility

Genre

• trueFamily and relationships
• trueNature Writing

Language

eng

Summary

"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." -- Publisher's description

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueAccessible

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

393/.1

Index

index present

LC call number

GT3203

LC item number

.K45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult