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...American Way of Death, Mitford...
...Miss Mitford does not like our American funeral customs, let her return to the less civilized customs from which she came...
...American Way of Death, Mitford...
...AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH, Mitford...
...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 of "do-gooders and left-wingers," who are trying to wipe...