Description: This work analyzes the recent changes in death care and provides in-depth coverage of the death care industry. Subjects covered include goods and services, the market and economics of the industry, religious factors involved and alternative death care. Case studies of several leading companies are presented, as are future developments in the death care industry.
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Review Summary: Reverend Jim
Date: 2003-02-23
Details: This book is a serious, direct treatment of the death care industry. It properly addresses the death care field as a business -- a fact to be kept in mind by all participants, especially consumers. Smith seems to be a true believer in free market capitalism and would like to see its principles applied thoroughly in death care. In early chapters, he provides a reasoned argument to set against the views of the late Jessica Mitford ("The American Way of Death Revisited"). Perhaps a little harsh on religion and clergy, Smith is generally fair. He understands that vulnerability of at-need customers and recommends pre-need arrangements. Thomas Lynch's "The Undertaking: Life Studies In The Dismal Trade" makes many of the same basic points in a much more readable format (without graphs and business-ese).
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