| Description |
511 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Bodies, business, and traditions for saying goodbye. Circling the hearses ; Tricks of the funeral trade ; Caskets, other boxes, memorials, and markers ; Embalming : a beautiful memory picture? ; Cemeteries : for-profit and non-profit ; Preneed sales : it's not "all taken care of" ; Body parts : big business, little regulation ; Federal Trade Commission : a fickle consumer ally ; Filing an effective complaint : and what not to do ; Mortuary education : a dead end ; Home funerals : a returning tradition ; Green burial : what they used to just call "burial" -- Funeral law and related information for consumers : necessary information for family involvement -- Appendix. A, Ethical standards & unprofessional conduct ; B, Information needed for the death certificate. |
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Burial laws -- United States -- Popular works.
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Undertakers and undertaking -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Popular works.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Consumer protection -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Carlson, Lisa, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780942679342 paperback $19.95 |
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0942679342 paperback |
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