by Sarah Murray
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Resources
The Green Burial Council
www.greenburialcouncil.org
5. PACKING FOR ETERNITY
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6. RAISING PIGS
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7. FOREIGN FIELDS
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8. DEM BONES
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9. HELLO AGAIN
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10. THE FINAL CHAPTER
Dent, Alan, ed. Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
Mydans, Carl. “By a General’s Friend: Memento of 25 Years.” Life, April 17, 1964.
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Further Information
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A. J. Wakeley Funeral Service
AARP
Acton, Harold
adaptive-reuse coffin
Adler, Felix
Adotey, Eric Kpakpo
Aerial Missions
An Affair to Remember
Africa. See also Ghana
African-Americans
afterlife
behavior for happy
belief survey
Bismarck’s belief in
cultural beliefs in
death rites centered on
double burials and
eternal
preventing spirits’ return from
spiritualism evidence of
taking possessions into
Agung Suyasa, Tjokorda Gde
airline industry
Alastair (Fa’s brother)
Alba de Tormes convent
Albert (prince)
Ali Akbar (Husayn’s commander)
alkaline hydrolysis
All Saints’ Day
All Souls’ Day
Allen, Woody
altars for Day of the Dead
Amaya, Rufina
American Gothic (Wood)
The American Way of Death (Mitford)
The American Way of Death Revisited (Mitford)
Amir Chakhmagh
ancestors
Andean cult of the dead
Anderson, Dood
Anderson, Jim
Anglo-Saxon kings
Annie Hall
Anthony (Sam’s younger brother)
Archaeological Resources Protection Act
Argentine Forensic Anthropology (EAAF)
Ariès, Philippe
Arlington National Cemetery
art mementos
Ascension Thursday
Ashanti funeral party
ashes. See also remains
as calcium phosphate
Fa’s
fireworks display of
lockets containing
scattering of
weight of
Ashura
Atacama Desert (Chile)
atheism
Auden, W. H.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Aztec tradition
Baba Tahir
badés (pagoda-shaped towers)
bagua (Chinese symbol)
Bahrain
Baines, Thomas
Bali. See also cremation ceremonies, Balinese; Pelebon
crying at cremation ceremonies
embalming of nobles in
mourning clothes in
religious history of
soul regeneration in
temporary burials in
Bangyay, Siegrid
Baret, John
Barker, Kit
basal tears
basketball funerals
Bateson, George
Bateson’s Belfry
Batnag, Mrs., funeral of
Battle of Karbala
Battle of Waterloo
baya-o (tribal dirge)
Beat Repatriation Inequality Together (BRIT)
Beautiful Memory Picture
Becker, Ernest
Beckett, Samuel
Bentham, Jeremy
Beowulf
Berawan communities in Borneo
Bernini
Berwald, Angie
bicycles, ghost
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Death
black putrefaction
Blair, Tony
bloating, corpse
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Body Worlds
bones, human
chandelier of
composition of
creative displays of
digging up and storing
El Mozote
famadihana dance with
mineral component of
pyramids of
ritual uses of
tales told by
Bonner, Raymond
Borneo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bradbury, Mary
Bray, Alan
Brazil
bride effigies
BRIT. See Beat Repatriation Inequality Together
Britain
coffin designs in
first cremation in
Roman occupation of
British empire
British Humanist Association
British Museum
British stoicism
Bronze Age burial mounds in Bahrain
Brooke, Rupert
brother, Fa’s
Buddha
Bulgarian choral singers
bulls, Pelebon ceremonial
burials. See also repatriation; tombs
away from home
clothes for
in colonial India
containers for
diaspora
double
exhumation
family
family conflict over
Fa’s location for
fear of live
fetal position
green
Hong Kong’s space shortage for
locations for