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Word: treuhaft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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 out beauty, sentiment and religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Business of Dying | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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