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GunslingerGunsl posted...

The outrage that comes with desecrating someone's dead body is also interesting. Why does that author think American funeral practices are obscene in particular?

The process has become over-sentimentalized and over-commercialized to the point that funeral directors take advantage of people's grieving and exploit them by charging ridiculous prices for their services. We've turned death into a commodity, complete with a pretty, formaldehyde-infused corpse to present. You're paying for a product you don't need because our society's culture has deemed that this is how it must be done.