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The Funeral Business
Davis, Kiplinger. Six feet under: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Chicago, IL: Kaplan Pub. Print
The book takes an in-depth look at the family-run funeral home business where majority of the Americans turn to when death occurs. The source can be used to analyze the issues that affect a relation when a family member is lost as well as the need for funeral homes with attachment to them in the process of bereavement.
Lensing, Vicki. “Grief Support: The Role of Funeral Service”. Journal of Loss and Trauma 6.1 (2001): 45-63. Print.
The journal looks at the grief counseling process used in the need to attend to family members and relations when death occurs amidst them. The journal can be important for the study of funeral services as they are the fist contact of the healing process and getting to terms with the loss.
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funeral business involves the process of making sure that the dead has received
the respect, sanctification, and honor that he or she deserves. Aside from the
business that it generates to the concerned parties, it is an integral part as
per customs, beliefs, rituals and culture of a people. It is the dominant
element in the work, despite the requirements of attending to the dead needs as
well as the requirements made by the concerned family. The commoditization of
funeral service products has removed the funeral industry from simply serving a
need arising at the end of life. The value has been placed on the monetary
gains made from the whole process instead of the sacred association and
religious intonation that it had before. The dead and family felt the connection
and much needed healing process when the loss occurred. The increased rates of
deaths across board together with the funeral requirements have increased the
need for the process to embrace commercialization. Thus, the significance has
been lost or reduced in the process.
Works Cited
Davis, Kiplinger. Six feet under: Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Chicago, IL: Kaplan Pub. Print.
Lensing, Vicki. “Grief Support: The Role of Funeral Service”. Journal of Loss and Trauma 6.1 (2001): 45-63. Print.