In the beginning of the book it was more about the death of Jeny and how thr family dealed with the fact that ahe was dead, as well as the cost of everything. But most of all it was about modern burial. In the second third of the book it beginnings to start talking about about the natural burials. Like cremation, burial at sea, memorial reef, and home funeral. Cost of all this things were talked about. As well as other stories of people taht died and what was done with their body.
it's hard to celebrate someone's life at a service when his dead body is sitting there in the room. It's the pink elephant you just can't get around
you're on this wide open sea on a beautiful day. bird are flying overhead, sometimes porpoise are swimming alongside the boat.... it's just a totally different atmosphere than you have at a land-based funeral.
we'd had her at home with hospice in the last month of her life, and it just seemed fitting that we'd continue to take care of her after death with the same love and attention we'd shown her in life, not hand her off to some stanger.
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