Grave Matters: A Journey Through The Modern Funeral Industry To A Natural Way Of Burial By Mark Harris Publisher: Scribner
"Will We Need A Superfund To Clean Up Our Cemeteries?" could be another subtitle to this intriguing book. Mark Harris discusses the evolution of modern American funeral practices while extolling past and environmentally sensitive customs. A simple burial in a shroud or hand-made pine coffin, burial at sea, the home funeral, backyard burial and the emerging natural cemetery movement were and are intended to return a body naturally to the earth.