Behind closed doors: a close look at death and embalming -- The fashion merchandise of funerals: the stuff they try to sell you -- Death merchants: how they sell what you may not want to buy -- The question of cremation: how to arrange a cremation without getting burned -- Graveyards to memorial gardens: the ingenuity of interment -- Ding-dong, cemetery calling! door-to-door death sales -- Congress and the corpse: government takes a grave interest in the business -- The future of the death industry: will the funeral business adapt or die? -- The ins and outs of prearranging: a peek at the pitfalls of pre-need planning -- Getting the funeral you want: a guide to purchasing.
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