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Book Chapter

"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Residues of Death Disposal Refigured | Routledge | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.4324/9780429456404-4

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Abstract

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

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