Friday, June 12, 2009

POV - A Family Undertaking . Film Description | PBS


POV - A Family Undertaking . Film Description | PBS

What is old is often new again. Elizabeth Westrate's A Family Undertaking uncovers a growing social trend: the home funeral movement. More often, Americans are choosing to do it themselves when it comes to burying loved ones and easing their own grief. Far from being a radical innovation, however, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-twentieth century America.

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