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...more, the burial business, like most other businesses, is plagued by rising costs. Undertakers are also getting competition from cemeteries, which are sending out high-pressure door-to-door salesmen to sell plots on a "preneed" basis. Cemeteries are also selling their own vaults (outer casings to protect the coffin), and in California they are even supplying their own funeral chapels and mortuaries for "one-stop" funerals...
Bishop Pike, like most Episcopal clergymen, insists that the coffin be closed during the church service and covered with a pall, which makes the most elaborate bronze and silver casket look the same as a plain pine...
Plain Wood Coffins. Under such skillful manipulation, how many grief-stricken families have the maverick fortitude to select a plain wood coffin and demand that the undertaker dispense with embalming? The answer for a growing number of them is the memorial or funeral society, which contracts with undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations...
...spiritual traditions of the past, many Americans search for comfort in the face of death by conspiring with the technicians and gimmick merchants to pretend that it hasn't really happened. This is their right. But it is wrong that anyone who wants to buy a plain wood coffin no matter what kind of car he drives should feel that it is disrespectful of the dead...
...troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing M1 rifles as they advanced, overran the temple, snatched the smoldering coffin away, and smashed a statue of Gautama Buddha. From the temple's treasury they took an estimated...